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Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

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 experts in data, working to make it cost-effective, understandable, and trustworthy. We build pipelines processing billions of events a day and are stewards of canonical data warehouses and datasets delivering products for Stripe Users while embedding with teams to build their data products.  We are experts in using the Stripe Data Platform and to scale we lead the data culture and data education to enable product teams to own their data. We invest in [AI] Data Ops to scale incident handling and serve as an escalation path for data incidents to minimize their impact. The Data Engineering Solutions team will work closely with product teams delivering trustworthy data.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a hands-on Tech lead Manager to architect, build, and maintain the core data infrastructure powering Stripes business operations. This person will set the technical direction and lead a high-impact team working across Treasury, Finance & Billing. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in modern data systems including Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Flink with the ability to partner closely with business stakeholders, shape team culture and unlock new capabilities. You will:

  • Deliver cutting-edge data pipelines that scale to users' needs, focusing on reliability and efficiency.
  • Lead and manage a team of ambitious, talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.
  • Drive the execution of key reporting initiatives for Stripe, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
  • Collaborate with product managers and key leaders across the company to create a shared roadmap and drive adoption of canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure Stripes are using trustworthy data.
  • Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture/design and development of the datasets. 
  • Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.
  • Partner with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team.

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

We’re looking for someone who has: 

  • 2+ years managing high performing data engineering teams, as well as 7+ years of shipping Data Products/Data Warehouses/Big Data Infrastructure and critical distributed system infrastructure.
  • Proven success in recruiting and building great teams.
  • Extreme customer focus, with a commitment to partnering with Product Managers, leaders, and other Stripe engineers to understand their use cases.
  • 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 an ambiguous environment.
  • Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers on architecture and strategic technical decisions.
  • 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 data users and operated large-scale, high-availability data transformation pipelines. 
  • Expertise in Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, AWS Cloud, and influencing open-source contributions is a plus.
  • Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work, with the ability to question and direct architectural decisions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for various audiences, including leadership, users, and company-wide.

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is CA$177,600 - CA$266,400. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Toronto

Remote locations

Remote in Canada

Team

Data Platform

Job type

Full time

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We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.