Staff Engineer, Data Serving Infrastructure

1 week ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India stripe Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year
Job Description

Who we are About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The group is responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large scale distributed services and several popular open source technologies like Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high scale services and thousands of individual Stripes across the company. We process hundreds of thousands of search and analytics shaped queries on petabytes of data ingested through real-time streaming and large batch ingestion pipelines. We are the data serving layer for one of the largest financial data lakes in the world.

What youll do

You will work as a tech lead across the data serving space and will be a key contributor to the evolution of our platform. You will directly influence how Stripe analyzes its vast and ever growing data lake. As a Staff Engineer, youll be empowered to make decisions with a large impact on Stripe. You will guide our investments and strategy while making our systems reliable, secure, and a delight to use. Staff Engineers at Stripe are expected and empowered to operate autonomously and are counted on to help drive Stripe forward. In this role, you will work closely and frequently with the other tech staff & senior leadership across Stripes data platform and have opportunities to significantly influence the overall data strategy for Stripe. Were looking for people with a strong background and demonstrated leadership in data platform technologies.

Responsibilities
  • Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for Engineers & business within Stripe.
  • Build and maintain the infrastructure which powers the core of Stripe.
  • Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the decision maker.
  • Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole.
  • Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders preferences and concerns.
  • Advise Stripes leadership team on key technical considerations related to data storage and access within Stripe.
  • Work closely with the open source community to identify opportunities for adopting new open source features as well contribute back to the OSS.
  • Work effectively cross functionally.
  • Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe.
Who you are

Were 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
  • Have a strong technical background with 8 years of experience with data platforms and backend development.
  • Have experience with distributed SQL query engines like Trino, streaming systems like Kafka, Flink, Pinot, Druid, search engines like Open Search/ElasticSearch etc.
  • Have served as the technical lead for an organization and can demonstrate broad technical leadership.
  • Listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.
  • Work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you.
Preferred qualifications
  • Have been a Staff, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer at a top tier company.
  • Have owned the technical roadmap for a business area.
  • Are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your teams. Even senior engineers feel that theyre able to learn from you.
In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50 PERCENT of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80 PERCENT in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100 PERCENT from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.

We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand outand set you apartespecially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

Locations: Bengaluru



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