# Staff Software Engineer - CI Services

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Dublin, Ireland
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation, Flaky Test Management, Observability, System Reliability, Software Architecture, Ai-Assisted Development
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Leads the design, development, and operation of Stripe’s large-scale CI and developer productivity systems. Requires 10+ years of hands-on software development, distributed-systems expertise, technical leadership, and mentoring experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Build and manage systems for continuous integration at massive scale, including batching, speculative stacking, and merge-race inhibition.
- Build and manage systems for large CI test suites, including identifying and managing flaky tests, assessing and reproducing flakiness, and optimizing test effectiveness.
- Enhance CI system reliability through adaptive response to available capacity, resilience and self-recovery from outages, and highly leveraged observability.
- Detect and isolate code breakages to minimize their blast radius.
- Work directly with product engineers to understand and deliver their productivity needs.
- Scope and lead large technical projects with significant impact for engineers across Stripe.
- Design, build, and maintain core CI systems used by Stripe engineering teams.
- Evaluate technology and architecture choices and own many of these decisions.
- Contribute directly to core interface design and write code.
- Make critical decisions that consider software best practices, system realities, and stakeholder concerns.
- Teach and mentor technical leaders.
- Drive effective, highly leveraged use of AI-assisted implementation, operations, and delivery within the team.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Track record of technically mentoring junior and senior engineers.

## Nice-to-haves

- Customer obsession and ability to represent customer experience to drive the right outcomes.
- Experience defining and driving complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- Success with cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration, with strong conviction and courage.
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, or DevOps.

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