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.
The Data Movement team is responsible for building and operating a very large scale read-only ecosystem extending the primary online database in Stripe, providing much needed complements to the primary DB in terms of read and query capabilities at massive scale.
We build innovative solutions for real-time ingestion of terabytes of data and billions of events into our data warehouse for analysis and business-specific processing. Our team operates some of Stripe's highest volume data pipelines, processing over 1 GB/second for many business critical use cases are successful for Stripe, including:
There are about 10,000 downstream jobs built by hundreds of internal teams based on this read-only online ecosystem that the Data Movement team owns and operates.
We adopt a combination of open source technologies and in-house built software to ensure high scalability, reliability, and near-realtime freshness of data. Key example technologies used include: Flink, Spark (and structured streaming), Iceberg (and associated table compaction), Trino, Airflow, Kafka, CDC, and Kubernettes, etc. And we operate these at a non-trivial scale, across multiple regions.
It’s a high stake and high visibility role, especially as a Staff Engineer, you will be one of the most senior members in the org. Not only will you provide strong technical directions for the team, we also look up to you as the culture north star for the organization. We really value strong engineers who have a team-first mentality, a strong bias for action, and a solution-focused mindset.
What you’ll do
As a Staff Software Engineer on our team, you will do the following:
We’re looking for someone who:
Minimum requirements
Preferred qualifications
Experience packaging and deploying code into cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) with tools including Bazel, Docker Containers, etc
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Has experience designing APIs or building developer platforms
Has experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
Has experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment
Has experience working with data pipelines
Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work
This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
The annual US base salary range for this role is $224,000 - $336,000. 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 location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.
Office locations
Seattle, or New York
Remote locations
Remote in United States
Team
Data Platform
Job type
Full time