Staff Engineer, Stripe
Data Warehouse Analytics
$203.9-287.9k
OTE
Plus equity and bonus
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$203.9-287.9k
OTE
Plus equity and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Have a strong technical background with 8+ years of experience with data platforms and backend development
- Have experience with distributed SQL query engines like Trino
- Have served as the technical lead for a team of engineers and can demonstrate broad technical leadership
- Listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- Work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you
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 tech 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 significant impact on Stripe and help guide our investments and strategy while making our systems reliable, secure, and a delight to use
- Staff Engineers at Stripe are empowered to operate autonomously and are counted on to help drive Stripe forward
- In this role, you will work closely and frequently with the tech staff community across Stripe’s data platform and have opportunities to significantly influence the overall data strategy for Stripe
- We’re looking for people with a strong background and demonstrated leadership in data platform technologies, ideally within the distributed SQL query engine space
- Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for Engineers 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 payment 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 extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward 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 14 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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(CEO)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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