What you’ll do
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will take ownership of problems across the code review domain, set technical direction, and build alignment across Stripe. You will combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering to build the systems that determine which changes can be approved by agents and when human judgment is needed. Your decisions will influence both the pace and safety of changes across Stripe.
You will work across user interfaces, backend services, source control integrations, and agent harnesses. Our team works primarily in Go, Ruby, and TypeScript, and you will use the technologies each problem requires. As AI capabilities evolve, you will 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 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