Job brief: Staff Software Engineer, Code Forge

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• Listed on Stripe's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-13 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-13.
• The apply link opens stripe.com, the address Stripe's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · San Francisco, Seattle, US-Remote · US
• Posted: 2026-10-16

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating reliable production software across languages and system boundaries

Main duties

• Set technical direction for code review, build alignment across Stripe, and mentor engineers as you lead complex projects from problem definition through del…
• 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 improv…
• Evaluate and apply advances in AI and agent orchestration to accelerate engineering delivery across Stripe while maintaining review quality, maintainability,…
• Build and maintain Orbit Diffs and the surrounding code review tools, helping engineers understand changes and focus their attention where their judgment is …

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $196k a year (980 listings, 58 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Stripe's 82 open listings, 10% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Stripe hires

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