Staff Engineer, Stripe
Data Serving Infrastructure
$209.8-314.8k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$209.8-314.8k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people with a strong background and demonstrated leadership in data platform technologies
- Strong technical background with 10+ years of experience in data platforms, distributed systems, and backend development
- Experience using, operating and optimizing distributed SQL query engines like Trino/Presto
- Experience managing and scaling data warehouse systems like Hive Metastore or AWS Glue Data Catalog
- Experience with data lake architectures and hands-on experience with data lake open table formats such as Parquet, Iceberg, Delta lake, Hudi, etc
- Strong programming skills in at least one JVM language (Java, Scala) and proficiency in SQL. Experience with Golang or Python is a plus
- Excellent problem-solving skills and experience in troubleshooting complex distributed systems
- Track record of serving as a technical lead, with the ability to provide technical direction and mentor team members
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, collaborating effectively with data engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders
- Ability to listen and synthesize ideas from across the organization while setting a compelling technical vision
Desirable
- Have been a Staff, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer at a top tier company
- Have owned the technical roadmap for a business area
- Are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your teams. Even senior engineers feel that they’re able to learn from you
What the job involves
- You will work as a Technical lead for the data warehouse analytics space and will be a key contributor to the evolution of our platform. You will directly influence how Stripe analyzes its vast and ever growing data lake.
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be empowered to make decisions with a large impact on Stripe.
- You will guide our investments and strategy while making our systems reliable, secure, and a delight to use. Staff Engineers at Stripe are expected and empowered to operate autonomously and are counted on to help drive Stripe forward.
- In this role, you will work closely and frequently with the other tech staff & senior leadership across Stripe’s data platform and have opportunities to significantly influence the overall data strategy for Stripe.
- Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for Engineers & business within Stripe
- Build and maintain the infrastructure which powers the core of Stripe
- Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the decision maker
- Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole
- Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns
- Advise Stripe’s leadership team on key technical considerations related to data storage and access within Stripe
- Work closely with the open source community to identify opportunities for adopting new open source features as well contribute back to the OSS
- Work effectively cross functionally
- Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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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