Internal Product Engineer, Developer Productivity AI

Stripe

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:  * Core Infrastructure—We're the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems. * Developer Infrastructure—We're responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripe's engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models. * Data Infrastructure—We're responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics, and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large-scale distributed services and several popular open-source technologies like Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high-scale services and thousands of individual Stripes across the company. * Admin Platform—We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users. * Service Platform—We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capabilities. * Developer Productivity AI—We're responsible for doubling Stripe's engineering velocity through effective use of LLMs. We own Minions, Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents. Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here. WHAT YOU'LL DO You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day. RESPONSIBILITIES * Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure * Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization * Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe * Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack WHO YOU ARE We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above * Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.) * 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms * Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems * Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success * Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome * Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems * Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external * Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Stripe

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team We are a brand new team working quickly to accelerate Stripe's engineering productivity by effectively deploying LLM agents and tools to automate large swaths of the engineering workflow. We're a cross-continent team spanning North America and Europe, filled with high-agency engineers with strong product perspectives. What you'll do We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager who can effectively lead a team of high-agency engineers to move quickly in a rapidly evolving technology space. You'll help set product direction in a field with a nearly endless solution space. People passionate about great products, user experience, and with strong opinions about how engineers do their best work will excel in this role. Prior experience deploying AI developer tools isn't required, but is a plus. You will: * Lead a senior, cross-continent team of engineers to rapidly deploy and leverage the latest in AI developer tooling * Deliver compelling user and product experiences for internal customers * Partner across the company to redefine how software engineers at Stripe work * Keep pace with an incredibly fast-moving technology landscape * Dig deep into usage data to understand how engineers use AI tools, identify opportunities, and help Stripe accelerate Who you are We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements * 2+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, and at least 5+ years of experience as a software engineer * Proven success in recruiting and building great teams * A track record of delivering innovative, high-quality product experiences—for internal or external users * Effective cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate difficult decisions and trade-offs * Thrives with high autonomy and responsibility in ambiguous environments * Ability to foster a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment Preferred qualifications * Experience tech leading, mentoring, and managing a team that shipped products to engineers * Experience building tools and products for technical audiences—either internal or external customers * Deep curiosity and strong opinions about the use of AI in software engineering * Strong written and verbal communication skills across varied audiences, including leadership, end users, and company-wide forums

Instacart

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. OVERVIEW Instacart’s AI Productivity team builds AI-powered platforms and tools that help our engineers and operators move faster, reduce toil, and deliver higher-quality experiences for customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design, build, and operate production systems that bring large language models and intelligent automation into everyday workflows across Instacart. You’ll partner closely with product, developer platform, ML platform, security, and data teams to ship reliable, secure, and measurable solutions that improve developer velocity and operational efficiency. You’ll join a collaborative group of approximately 10 engineers who value ownership, iteration, and pragmatic problem solving. If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves, navigating ambiguity, and turning cutting-edge AI into real, scalable products, this role is for you. This position is remote-friendly across Canada. ABOUT THE JOB * Design, build, and operate AI-powered services and internal applications—such as code and test assistants, knowledge search, and intelligent chat workflows—that improve developer and operator productivity at scale. * Implement robust back-end services in languages such as Python, Go, or Java; integrate foundation models via APIs and open-source frameworks; and apply techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and vector search where appropriate. * Own projects end-to-end, including requirements, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, on-call participation, and iterative improvements focused on reliability, latency, and cost efficiency. * Partner with Developer Platform, ML Platform, Security, and Legal to ensure safe and compliant AI usage, including data governance, guardrails, content/prompt safety, and privacy-by-design. * Define and track success with clear metrics (e.g., adoption, task completion time, DORA/SPACE signals, satisfaction), and run experiments and A/B tests to validate impact and guide iteration. * Create and maintain shared tooling, libraries, and documentation that raise the bar for applied AI development across Instacart, and mentor teammates on best practices in this fast-paced, evolving space. ABOUT YOU MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS * 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services. * 3+ years of hands-on experience in at least one of: Python, Go, or Java. * 2+ years of experience integrating ML or LLM capabilities into applications (e.g., via OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex) and shipping them to production. * Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes). * Proficiency with SQL and data modeling; experience building or maintaining data pipelines (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, or similar). * Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and participation in an on-call rotation. * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience adapting or fine-tuning foundation models and implementing retrieval-augmented generation with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, or Elasticsearch with vector search). * Track record of building internal developer tools or platforms adopted by 100+ engineers. * Experience measuring developer productivity (e.g., DORA/SPACE), instrumenting product analytics, and running A/B or multivariate experiments. * Knowledge of AI safety, privacy, and compliance practices (e.g., PII redaction, guardrails, model/content moderation, data residency considerations). * Experience with event-driven systems and microservices (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and designing resilient distributed systems. * Ability to build lightweight front-ends for internal tools (e.g., React, TypeScript) to accelerate adoption and feedback loops. * Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership within cross-functional teams. #LI-Remote Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here. For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CAN $168,000—$177,500 USD