# Staff Software Engineer, Storage Abstractions

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Java, Ruby, Python, API Design, SDKs, Distributed Systems, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Rocksdb, Relational Databases, Observability, Incident Response, On-Call Rotations
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Leads technical direction and multi-year initiatives for storage abstractions, developer infrastructure, and AI-agent workflows. The role requires 12+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and strong leadership across complex, cross-team initiatives.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for storage access and lead high-impact initiatives from strategy through delivery.
- Evolve storage abstractions so service teams can use consistent capabilities across languages, API versions, and storage backends.
- Design stable interfaces and guardrails that improve data correctness, reliability, observability, and performance by default.
- Build agent-accessible SDKs, frameworks, and developer workflows for safe, effective use of storage infrastructure.
- Partner with senior leaders, engineers, product teams, and core infrastructure teams on cross-organizational data architecture challenges.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards for technical design, execution, and operational excellence.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 5+ years leading technical strategy and delivery for complex, cross-team engineering initiatives.
- Experience leading engineering teams working on API design, SDKs, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries.
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems focused on data correctness, performance, and safe evolution of critical infrastructure.
- Experience designing developer infrastructure for AI or agentic workflows and helping define technical direction.
- Track record of understanding customer needs and delivering simple, reliable experiences.
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers.
- Proven delivery of pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
- Ability to move between high-level discussions and detailed coding.
- Strong written and in-person communication, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, or Python.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MongoDB or large-scale storage systems such as DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, RocksDB, or relational databases.
- Experience guiding adoption of shared developer platforms across large internal engineering organizations.
- Experience developing observability and operational tooling.
- Experience in financial technology or environments where data correctness and reliability are critical.
- Experience influencing product and organizational decisions with senior leaders and broad stakeholder groups.
- Experience leading partially remote and distributed teams.
- Experience managing incident response processes and on-call rotations.

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