Job brief: Staff Software Engineer, Code Forge

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Stripe's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-12 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-12.
• 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: na · US
• Posted: 2026-11-12

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 distributed systems, databases, or storage infrastructure in production

Main duties

• Work with engineers across Stripe to understand how they, their agents, and their CI jobs use source control, and use their feedback and data to decide what …
• Set technical direction for how Stripe stores and serves code, build alignment across teams and leaders, and lead large, multi-engineer projects from design …
• Design and build storage systems for code and its history that scale with our monorepo and with the growing load from engineers, agents, and CI, making decis…
• Make sure that engineers never lose work and are not blocked by outages, through high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery across regions
• Partner with the Developer AI and Developer Environments teams to remove latency in the paths that engineers, agents, and CI/Builds use most, such as startin…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $188k a year (998 listings, 59 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Stripe's 79 open listings, 10% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Stripe hires

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