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Staff Software Engineer, Deployment Platform

Stripe · Seattle

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 days
Stripe's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
3% of Stripe's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Stripe
high
615 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
2026-10-22

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 Deployment Platform team at Stripe, you will be responsible for the technical delivery of large infrastructure projects, focusing on the evolution of the deployment platform. Your role involves architecting new systems, enhancing deployment anomaly detection, and ensuring the reliability and operational excellence of the deployment processes. You will collaborate with various teams to improve deployment safety and developer experience while mentoring other engineers and setting technical standards.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
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

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects end-to-end
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and deployment orchestration
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments
  • Strong background in service reliability and operational excellence
  • Track record of broad technical impact across multiple large systems

Nice to have

  • Background in deployment safety systems
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code at scale
  • Developer platform or internal tooling background
  • Change management and feature rollout systems

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • In-office expectations require at least 50% time in the local office, which may vary by role and team
  • The role involves complex, multi-layered problems that may require significant collaboration across teams

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Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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