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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 15 days Stripe's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 3% of Stripe's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Stripe
- low 0 stale, 52 reposted of 633 open
- Hiring momentum
- 892 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Stripe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Stripe.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Storage Abstractions (STAX) team at Stripe, you will lead technical direction and initiatives focused on simplifying and securing storage access for developers and AI agents. Your role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance data architecture, designing stable interfaces, and mentoring engineers to improve technical execution and operational excellence. This position emphasizes building frameworks that make storage operations safe and discoverable while ensuring high-quality standards across the organization.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Stripe as an employer.
What you need
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years leading technical strategy and delivery for complex, cross-team engineering initiatives
- Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, SDKs, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems with a focus on data correctness, performance, and safe evolution of critical infrastructure
- Work designing developer infrastructure for AI or agentic workflows
- Demonstrated customer-centricity with a track record of understanding user needs
Nice to have
- Experience with MongoDB or other large-scale storage systems
- Experience guiding adoption of a shared developer platform across a large internal engineering organization
- Experience developing observability and operational tooling
- Experience in financial technology or environments where data correctness is important
- Experience influencing product and organizational decisions with senior leaders
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves significant leadership and cross-team collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
- Focus on AI and developer infrastructure suggests a modern tech stack but may also imply evolving challenges
- Expectations for high autonomy and responsibility may not suit all candidates
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Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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