Staff Software Engineer, Risk Data Engineering

Описание

Stripe is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Product and Risk Data Engineering to build and lead large-scale data pipelines, warehouses, and trusted data foundations. The role includes mentoring engineers, partnering across teams, and maintaining reliability and SLAs for data systems. It also involves collaboration on supporting applications and AI/LLM-enabled data workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical outcomes for a team of ambitious, talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
• Partner with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent
• Deliver cutting-edge data pipelines that scale to users' needs, focusing on reliability and efficiency
• Develop strong subject matter expertise and manage the SLAs of data pipelines and full stack web applications that support critical stakeholders
• Collaborate with product managers and peers across the company to create/improve canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure Stripes and customers are using trustworthy data
• Leverage AI/LLM and Agents at scale to produce and analyze high-quality data on ambiguous problems
• Have the opportunity to drive the execution of key data initiatives for Stripe, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team

Requirements

• This is a Staff-level role – that typically means 10+ years of experience building and operating data systems, pipelines, warehouses, infrastructure, and leading teams to deliver exceptional solutions
• A strong engineering background and passion for data as well as prior experience with writing and debugging data pipelines using a distributed data framework
• An inquisitive nature in diving into data inconsistencies to pinpoint issues, and resolve deep rooted data quality issues
• Knowledge of a backend development language (such as Scala, Java, or Go) and strong SQL experience
• Extreme customer focus, with a commitment to partnering with product, leaders across the business, 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
• Thrive with high autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to foster and work in a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment

Nice to have

• Our stack is made up of Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, and AWS Cloud - experience with all or some of these tools is a huge plus
• Influencing open-source contributions
• Experience creating and maintaining data marts / warehouses to power business reporting needs
• Experience collaborating with Product, Go-To-Market, or Sales / Marketing teams
• 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