Staff Software Engineer, Data Transformation

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

The Data Transformation team is responsible for building and operating batch and real time transformation pipelines and platforms for 400+ product teams at Stripe.  We're aiming to make data development and management workflow at Stripe a breeze with emphasis on producing high quality datasets used for critical analytics, dashboards and workflows at Stripe. The Products owned by this team are widely adopted with 450+ weekly active users improving developer productivity for data users by many folds. The team is in an interesting phase of innovation tied to topmost priority for Stripe building and executing the strategic roadmap for streaming transformation, incremental processing and ergonomic data modeling.    

We empower our users ranging from Data Scientists to Engineers building pipelines to create exceptional Stripe product experiences while providing a robust transformation platform for critical dashboarding, analytics and workflows at Stripe including: 

  • user-facing reporting products Sigma, Radar
  • Merchant facing dashboards,
  • Payments (pay-in and payout), 
  • Ledger,
  • Financial Data Reconciliation,
  • Regulatory Reporting, 
  • Machine Learning,
  • TechOps, Customer Success and GTM
  • Data Scientist & Analyst
  • Link, Issuing, Banking and the list goes on…

We adopt a combination of open source technologies and in-house built software to ensure high scalability, reliability, and usability of our transformation offerings. Key example technologies used include: Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Hive, S3, SQL, Python, Scala, GRPC, Kafka and FlinkSQL.

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. You will be driving critical workstreams for Stripe’s topmost priorities around delivering high quality, materialized datasets Stripe products and AI agents. 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:

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of solutions and products, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability and usability.
  • Define and design opinionated architectural strategies, policies, and abstractions that build a long term sustainable solution for internal Stripes, that will in turn enhance the experience of millions of Stripe users.
  • Ensure operational excellence and enable a highly available & reliable Data Transformation platform across streaming and batch workloads, delivering a world-class data creation and management ecosystem.
  • Collaborate nimbly with cross functional partners (PM), high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives - navigating various types of organizational complexity with the support of your own leadership team.
  • Partner with Engineering Management, Product Manager and key leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe’s Data Transformation roadmap
  • Lead and manage a team of talented engineers on the team, providing technical mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success

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

  • 10+ years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs, with a focus on large scale backend infrastructure.
  • Has very strong operational experience with large-scale, high-availability data pipelines from design, to execution, and safe change management. 
  • Has experience building infrastructure-as-a-product with a strong focus on users needs
  • Has strong collaboration and communication skills, and can comfortably interact with both technical and non-technical participants.
  • Has the curiosity to continuously learn about new technologies and business processes.
  • Is energized by delivering effective, user-first solutions through creative problem-solving and collaboration.

Preferred qualifications

  • Has experience writing production-level code and expertise in Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, Java, SQL, Trino, Pinot, and API design is a plus.
  • Experience packaging and deploying code into cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) with tools including Bazel, Docker Containers, etc
  • Has experience designing APIs or building developer platforms
  • Has experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment
  • Has experience working with data pipelines
  • Experience with industry-grade data transformation solutions such as dbt; familiarity with SQLMesh is a plus
  • Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work

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$208,000 - CA$312,000. 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

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.