Staff Software Engineer, Code Forge
Stripe · San Francisco, Seattle, US-Remote
About this role
**Staff Software Engineer — Code Forge** ## Who we are **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. ### About the team The **Developer Productivity** organization works to make Stripe the most productive place of an engineer’s career. The **Code Review** team builds tools and processes that help Stripe engineers review and ship code safely and efficiently—treating engineers’ attention as a valuable resource. Our goal is to build an **AI review agent** that outperforms human review at preventing problems after changes merge, while helping developers move quickly. We’re also moving code review from GitHub to **Orbit Diffs** (Stripe’s review interface) and enabling Stripe’s migration from legacy source control infrastructure to new systems. ## What you’ll do As a **Staff Software Engineer**, you’ll take ownership of problems across the code review domain, set technical direction, and build alignment across Stripe. You’ll combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering to build systems that determine which changes can be approved by agents and when human judgment is needed—impacting both the **pace** and **safety** of changes across Stripe. You’ll work across **user interfaces, backend services, source control integrations, and agent harnesses**. The team works primarily in **Go, Ruby, and TypeScript**, and you’ll use the technologies each problem requires. As AI capabilities evolve, you’ll experiment with new approaches and turn them into reliable, maintainable tools for developers. ## Responsibilities - Set technical direction for code review, build alignment across Stripe, and mentor engineers while leading 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** comparing agent vs. human review decisions, assessing safety of merged changes and impact on developer velocity - Evaluate and apply advances in **AI and agent orchestration** to accelerate delivery while maintaining review quality, maintainability, reliability, and change safety - Build and maintain **Orbit Diffs** and surrounding code review tools to help engineers understand changes and focus their attention - Improve code ownership, intelligent reviewer assignment, stacked pull request workflows, and change management controls - Support Stripe’s migration to new source control infrastructure by adapting code review workflows and integrations - Partner with security, compliance, infrastructure, reliability, and language/runtime teams to improve how software changes are evaluated and approved ## Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements. Preferred qualifications are a bonus. ### Minimum 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 qualit
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