Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The Developer Infrastructure organization at Stripe is a group of teams responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Our job is to ensure that Stripe is the most productive place of an engineer's career.
We support thousands of engineers across the development lifecycle in our primary languages of Ruby, Java, Go, Python and Typescript, we maintain the observability systems that ensure that Stripe maintains its industry leading 99.9995% uptime and we ensure that engineers can maintain a high level of productivity while remaining compliant with many of the important regulations that govern financial services.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining and driving the evolution of Stripe’s Developer Infrastructure. You’ll make critical decisions that affect the engineer practices of our entire engineering organization.
You will collaborate with product and infrastructure teams around the company to understand the pain points in their development processes and come up with creative solutions in order to drive up developer satisfaction and overall productivity.
Responsibilities
Define and design opinionated architectural strategies, policies, and abstractions that build a long term sustainable solution for internal Stripes, that will in turn enhance the experience of millions of Stripe users.
Collaborate nimbly with cross functional partners (PM), high-visibility teams and the
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)