The Staff Software Engineer, Agent Foundations role at Stripe focuses on leading the technical direction of the Machine Learning Platform. This team is responsible for building the infrastructure that enables ML engineers and data scientists to develop and deploy machine learning models efficiently. The position involves significant collaboration with various teams to enhance the impact of machine learning across Stripe's products. The engineer will also mentor other engineers and drive initiatives to improve ML development velocity.

• 10+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent domain expertise.
• A solid background in service-oriented architecture and large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating production ML platforms in areas such as model training and serving.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with various teams.

• Take ownership of end-to-end architecture and system design for large, complex projects across ML Platform.
• Define technical direction for highly ambiguous projects and transform complex user needs into platform strategy.
• Design system architectures for challenging ML Platform problems, including AI and ML workflow orchestration.
• Scope and lead large projects with significant business impact from requirements through production operation.
• Mentor and grow other engineers while serving as a role model for software system design and implementation.