Staff Software Engineer, Data Movement

Join to apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Data Movement role at StripeAbout StripeStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.About The TeamThe Data Movement team is responsible for building and operating a very large scale read-only ecosystem extending the primary online database in Stripe, providing much needed complements to the primary DB in terms of read and query capabilities at massive scale.We build innovative solutions for real-time ingestion of terabytes of data and billions of events into our data warehouse for analysis and business-specific processing. Our team operates some of Stripe's highest volume data pipelines, processing over 1 GB/second for many business critical use cases, including:user-facing reporting products (Sigma),user-facing dashboards,Risk and Fraud Detection,Machine Learning,Data Scientists,Payments (pay-in and payout),Ledger,Regulatory Reporting,Financial Data Reconciliation, andmany others.There are about 10,000 downstream jobs built by hundreds of internal teams based on this read-only online ecosystem that the Data Movement team owns and operates.We adopt a combination of open source technologies and in-house built software to ensure high scalability, reliability, and near-realtime freshness of data. Key example technologies used include: Flink, Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Airflow, Kafka, CDC, and Kubernetes.What you’ll doAs a Staff Software Engineer on our team, you will:Design, build, and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of solutions and products, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and efficiency.Define and design opinionated architectural strategies, policies, and abstractions that build a long-term sustainable solution for internal Stripes.Ensure operational excellence and enable a highly available & reliable Data Movement platform across streaming and batch workloads, delivering a world-class data and query ecosystem.Collaborate nimbly with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives.Connect your work with improvements in the usability and reliability of Open Source Software (OSS) like Apache Airflow, Iceberg, Spark, and contribute back to the OSS community.Who you areWe’re looking for someone who:Has very strong operational experience with large-scale, high-availability data pipelines from design to execution, and safe change management.Has experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools.Has experience building infrastructure-as-a-product with a strong focus on users' needs.Has strong collaboration and communication skills, and can comfortably interact with both technical and non-technical participants.Has the curiosity to continuously learn about new technologies and business processes.Is energized by delivering effective, user-first solutions through creative problem-solving and collaboration.Has 10+ years of experience.Preferred QualificationsHas experience writing production-level code in Scala, Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Airflow, Python, Java, and SQL.Experience packaging and deploying code into cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) with tools including Bazel, Docker Containers, etc.Has experience designing APIs or building developer platforms.Has experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems.Has experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment.Has experience working with data pipelines.Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work.Hybrid work at StripeThis role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).Pay and benefitsThe annual US base salary range for this role is $224,000 - $336,000. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-10-07