Senior Staff Software Engineer, Stripe

• Minimum of 15+ years of engineering experience OR equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise as relevant to this position
• Demonstrated experience of leading company-wide initiatives spanning hundreds of engineers across multiple teams and organizations while leveraging deep domain expertise to influence technical roadmaps, planning,and execution
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with security, reliability, and efficiency
• Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development engineers and peers
• Demonstrated adaptability and resilience in the face of novel technical and organizational challenges
• User-centric orientation and track record for productizing complex infrastructure

Desirable

• The Data Platform delivers data infrastructure and tools that power Stripe products and enable internal employees to make informed decisions and build data-centric products
• We keep security, performance, and reliability as top priorities, so we can create clean interfaces on our platform to enable Stripe engineers to focus on building great products for our users
• We operate at large scale on servers across the world and on hundreds of petabytes of data
• As a Technical Leader, you’ll be responsible for driving forward progress across multiple organizations for Stripe’s most critical initiatives. Your work will have a direct correlation between Stripe's (and our user's) bottom line
• Define and own the technical roadmaps for large cross-cutting efforts that span the Data Platform, with Stripe-wide impact
• Own and drive cross functional partnerships with organizations spanning Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Data Science, ML Engineering, Product Engineering, Finance, Risk, Operations, and GTM teams, and partner closely with the leadership/stakeholders of various teams within those organizations
• Establish project owners and contribute to prioritization and execution with the appropriate amount of urgency
• Present clear, thoughtful, and opinionated analysis to senior leaders, enabling them to make tough and thoughtful decisions with clear tradeoffs
• Have excellent judgment and operate with minimal oversight
• Make impactful, hands-on contributions throughout the project lifecycle, from scoping to design, coding, and operations
• Mentor and sponsor experienced managers and/or very experienced engineers, assist with team growth and development, and set the culture bar for excellence and technical curiosity