Staff Engineer, Stripe

• We’re looking for a strong technical leader who is passionate about solving hard technical problems in the context of complex, high scale, distributed systems
• 10+ years of experience in full time software development roles
• You have extensive experience working in complex distributed systems with significant scale and reliability requirements
• You have proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Java, Ruby, Python)
• You have experience with big data technologies (e.g. Flink, Kafka, Pinot, Iceberg) and a solid understanding of data modeling and database systems
• You are self-directed and can operate autonomously across multiple teams to deliver scaled impact.\
• You have experience as a technical lead, including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• You have experience mentoring and growing senior engineers

Desirable

• The Stripe Billing team builds software tools that accelerate the economic and technological growth of global businesses by helping them operationalize their commercial relationship with their customers
• Our product offering is a robust set of building blocks that our customers combine in creative ways to support their ever-evolving business
• Our Billing platform serves as the strong foundation to support different billing models, customer acquisition channels, and ways of issuing bills and collecting payments
• We also offer tools such as billing and SaaS analytics and revenue retention and recovery, designed to meet the full recurring revenue management needs of startups and large enterprises alike
• We’re looking for an experienced Staff Backend Engineer to join our team and lead initiatives focused on establishing Stripe Billing as the go-to billing platform for high-growth, innovative GenAI companies
• In this role, you will be responsible for architecting and building transformative usage-based billing functionality, including a high-throughput usage ingestion system that consumes and processes billions of events per month, real-time credit drawdown systems, and industry-leading risk management tools that allow GenAI innovators to scale with confidence
• Winning in this space requires solving uniquely challenging technical problems; our systems process large volumes of high cardinality data with low latency and strong consistency to power downstream billing systems
• This is your chance to shape the future of how the next generation of startups and enterprises manage their revenue
• Lead by example in designing, building, and operating scalable and reliable usage-based billing functionality
• Drive architecture and technical breakdown discussions, both within and across teams
• Partner closely with engineering and product leadership to define our technical strategy
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Develop and lead execution against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
• Identify and prioritize investments to continuously improve reliability and performance
• Work closely with platform teams across Stripe to align on technical dependencies and unblock long-term roadmap delivery
• Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including Java, Ruby, Kafka, Flink, and Pinot
• Mentor and coach individual contributors to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe