Software Engineer, Stripe
Data Movement & Orchestration
$136.8-244.7k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$136.8-244.7k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field and interest in data
- 2-5 years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs
- Has experience operating or enabling large-scale, high-availability data pipelines from design, to execution and safe change management. Expertise in Spark, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, Java, SQL, and API design is a plus
- Has experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
- 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
Desirable
- Has experience writing production-level code in Expertise in Scala, Spark, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, Java, and SQL 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 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
What the job involves
- The Data Transformation and Movement team operates the critical infrastructure that powers near-realtime and batch data processing at Stripe
- The team supports a variety of use cases, including Payment, Ledger, ML, Fraud Detection, Product Analytics, Regulatory Reporting, Financial Data Reconciliation, and externally facing products like Radar and Sigma
- As an example of the scale, the team’s systems serve hundreds of teams, thousands of workflows, 100,000+ task executions, O(billion) streaming transformations, and moving terabytes of data processing over 1 GB/second every day
- Our users inside Stripe include other engineering teams, Data Scientists, Sales & Operations, Finance, etc
- This role could be on any one of the following sub-teams:
- Data Movement builds and operates a constellation of multi-region, high scale ingestion systems that moves data from all online sources into Iceberg, with sub-minute latency
- On the cusp of innovation, we're pushing the boundaries of open-source Iceberg and Spark for real-time ingestion
- Data Orchestration builds and operates the time-based and event-based orchestration infrastructure that powers and accelerates batch data pipelines
- Data Transformation builds and operates the transformation abstractions and infrastructure that support frictionless data development across the board, sub-minute event data to enormous daily partitions - or even for-all-time snapshots
- Our team operates on a wide range of tech stacks including Kafka, Event Bus, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive MetaStore, Trino, Pinot, SQL, Python, Java, Scala, S3, and Iceberg
- Design, build, and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of key Data Platform products, with an emphasis on usability, reliability, security, and efficiency
- Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions that build a great customer experience 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 & Movement platform across streaming and batch workloads
- Collaborate nimbly with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives - while building a robust platform that benefits all of Stripe in the long term
- Plan for the growth of Stripe’s infrastructure by unblocking, supporting, and communicating proactively with internal partners to achieve results
- Connect your work with improvements in the usability and reliability of Open Source Software (OSS) like Apache Airflow, Iceberg, Spark and contribute back to the OSS community
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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