Staff Software Engineer, Code Forge

Stripe is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead work across its code review domain. The role involves setting technical direction and building AI review agents, code review tools, and integrations that help engineers ship changes safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction for code review, build alignment across Stripe, and mentor engineers as you lead complex projects from problem definition through delivery and adoption
• Build and improve agent harnesses that enable review agents to exercise judgment and safely approve pull requests
• Develop evaluations that compare agent and human review decisions, assess the safety of merged changes and the impact on developer velocity, and guide improvements to approval decisions
• Evaluate and apply advances in AI and agent orchestration to accelerate engineering delivery across Stripe while maintaining review quality, maintainability, reliability, and change safety
• Build and maintain Orbit Diffs and the surrounding code review tools, helping engineers understand changes and focus their attention where their judgment is most valuable
• Improve code ownership, intelligent reviewer assignment, stacked pull request workflows, and controls for change management
• Support Stripe’s migration to new source control infrastructure by adapting code review workflows and integrations
• Partner with security, compliance, infrastructure, reliability, and language and runtime teams to improve how software changes are evaluated and approved across Stripe

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating reliable production software across languages and system boundaries
• Experience owning a technical domain, setting technical direction, and leading complex projects from ambiguous problems through delivery
• Experience using data and user feedback to evaluate quality, understand user needs, and guide engineering decisions
• Experience building alignment across teams, explaining technical tradeoffs, and adapting your approach as technologies evolve
• Experience building agent harnesses, orchestrating agents, or designing evaluations for agent behavior
• Experience building developer productivity tools, especially code review or related workflows
• Experience with software change management and compliance, including designing, implementing, or maintaining controls