Staff Engineer, Stripe

• 10+ years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs
• Have experience with distributed data systems such as Spark, Flink, Trino, Kafka ,etc
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
• Experience building infrastructure as a product centered around user needs

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Staff Engineer with deep experience designing, building, and scaling distributed data systems
• You will help lead the next evolution of Stripe’s data lake—moving toward a secure, compliant, and cost-efficient storage layer that seamlessly supports both streaming and batch workloads
• You’ll work closely with partner teams and open-source communities to create state-of-the-art infrastructure that makes data at Stripe fast, reliable, and secure
• Scope, design, and lead high-impact technical projects within the Data Lake domain
• Build and maintain the core services and tooling that power Stripe’s data lake: metadata/catalog services, table formats, ingestion pipelines, and governance controls
• Optimize end-to-end performance and cost across storage and compute engines
• Drive the adoption of emerging open-source capabilities and contribute fixes and features back to projects such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet
• Champion operational excellence—ensuring the data lake is highly available, reliable, secure, and compliant
• Partner with product and data teams to understand user needs and shape the roadmap for a “data lake as a product” experience