Backend Engineer, Stripe

• We’re looking for people with a strong background (or interest!) in Data Lake architectures and who are excited about solving challenging distributed systems problems
• We’re looking for people interested in data. We’d love to hear from you whether you’re a seasoned software engineer, or whether you’ve just learned you might like working with data lakes
• Professional hands-on software development experience
• Experience designing, building, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment
• Experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs

Desirable

• The Data Lake team builds and operates Stripe’s Data Lake, enabling high-scale data ingestion, unified storage, and data governance across services for all of Stripe. We operate globally distributed systems at high levels of reliability to support Stripe’s growing scalability, reliability, and product requirements
• We enable other teams at Stripe by creating simple abstractions and providing self-service tooling and dashboards to enable users to easily operate services on our infrastructure. We minimize operational toil for the team through regular investment in automation of maintenance operations
• You’ll work with other infrastructure engineers as well as the product engineers who use the systems we build
• Design, build, and maintain Data Lake infrastructure – leveraging popular systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Iceberg, Temporal, and Amazon S3 – used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams
• Work with various stakeholders at Stripe to understand their specific requirements and identify opportunities to better leverage our streaming infrastructure