Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Business Data Company: Stripe Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 21:20:38 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Airflow, Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, Flink, Hive, Iceberg, Java, Kafka, LLM, SQL, Scala, Spark, Stripe About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience building and operating data systems, pipelines, warehouses, infrastructure, and leading teams to deliver exceptional solutions Required Skills: •Lead the technical outcomes for a team of ambitious, talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success •Partner with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent •Deliver cutting-edge data pipelines that scale to users' needs, focusing on reliability and efficiency •Develop strong subject matter expertise and manage the SLAs of data pipelines and full stack web applications that support critical stakeholders •Partner cross-functionally with product managers and peers across the company to create/improve canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure Stripes and customers are using trustworthy data •Leverage AI/LLM and Agents at scale to produce and analyze high-quality data on ambiguous problems •Have the opportunity to drive the execution of key data initiatives for Stripe, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion •Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team Qualifications: •We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. •This is a Staff-level role — that typically means 10+ years of experience building and operating data systems, pipelines, warehouses, infrastructure, and leading teams to deliver exceptional solutions •A strong engineering background and passion for data as well as prior experience with writing and debugging data pipelines using a distributed data framework •An inquisitive nature in diving into data inconsistencies to pinpoint issues, and resolve deep rooted data quality issues •Knowledge of a backend development language (such as Scala, Java, or Go) and strong SQL experience •Extreme customer focus, with a commitment to partnering with product, leaders across the business, and other Stripe engineers to understand their use cases •Effective cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate difficult decisions and trade-offs •Thrive with high autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment •Demonstrated capacity to foster and work in a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment •Our stack is made up of Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, and AWS Cloud - experience with all or some of these tools is a huge plus Compensation: •$224,000 - $336,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!