Software Engineer, Change data capture

Who we are 

About Stripe 

Stripe 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 team 

Stripe's Change Data Capture (CDC) system powers the company's data infrastructure by streaming real-time database changes into the Stripe Data Lake. That low-latency feed unlocks timely insights and workflows across Payments, Ledger, machine learning, fraud detection, product analytics, regulatory reporting, and financial reconciliation — and it underpins externally facing tools like Radar and Sigma. CDC operates at production scale (~1M events/sec) and supports a broad user base: engineering teams, data scientists, sales & operations, and finance.

CDC provides multiple products that let customers backfill historical data, stream real‑time changes into the Data Lake, and archive records to query‑optimized analytics stores — all without compromising the reliability, maintainability, or scalability of our transactional databases (for example, MongoDB).

What you'll do 

As a Software Engineer on our team, you will do the following: 

• Design, build, and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of key CDC products, with an emphasis on usability, reliability, security, and efficiency. 
• Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions that build a great customer experience for internal Stripes, that will in turn enhance the experience of millions of Stripe users.
• Ensure operational excellence and enable a highly available & reliable CDC Platform. 
• Collaborate nimbly with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives - while building a robust platform that benefits all of Stripe in the long term. 
• Plan for the growth of Stripe's infrastructure by unblocking, supporting, and communicating proactively with internal partners to achieve results. 
• Connect your work with improvements in the usability and reliability of Open Source Software (OSS) like Debezium and contribute back to the OSS community. 

Who you are 

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. 

Minimum requirements 

• 8+ years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs and interest in Data Infrastructure. 
• Has experience operating or enabling large-scale, high-availability data pipelines from design, to execution and safe change management. Expertise in Spark, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, Java, SQL, and API design is a plus. 
• 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. 

Preferred qualifications 

• Has experience writing production-level code in Expertise in Java, Go, Scala, and Airflow is a plus.
• 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 Airflow Infrastructure. 
• Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work 

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams. 

Office location - Bengaluru , KA, India