Backend Engineer, Data

Stripe, Inc.; United States; Remoto; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Data Foundations software engineer to design and scale data pipelines and governance across Product, Data Science, and GTM teams. You will own data products and help deliver reliable, scalable data services across the organization.

You will work with Spark, Scala, Java, SQL, and Python to build data infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling, collaborating with multiple internal teams to solve complex data challenges and drive strategic insights for Stripe customers.

Competenze

• 6+ years in a Software Engineering role focusing on data services
• Strong engineering background with a focus on data
• Experience writing and debugging data pipelines with distributed frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, Pig)
• Curious approach to uncovering data quality issues in data stores
• Backend language knowledge (Scala, Java, or Go) and strong SQL
• Ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements, and design shared datasets

Mansioni

• Design, develop, and own data pipelines, models, and products for Product, Data Science, and GTM.
• Manage service levels for data pipelines and full-stack apps serving stakeholders.
• Build and refine data foundations—infrastructure, pipelines, tools using Spark, Scala, Java, SQL, Python.
• Leverage LLMs and Agents to produce high-quality data on ambiguous problems.
• Refine data marts to forecast business performance and measure progress toward targets.
• Build data services that track product metrics and impact of strategies.
• Work across Spark, Scala, Java, SQL, Python across tenure.

Conoscenze

Scala

Java

Go

SQL

Data engineering

Data modeling

Cross-functional communication

Strumenti

Spark

Hadoop

Pig

Airflow

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

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

The Data Foundations team drives Data Engineering and Data Apps and Tooling work across Stripe, enabling Stripes to leverage data to make informed decisions and build user-centric products. We provide tools and infrastructure to move, store, process, and analyze data, both at rest and in motion. We are looking for talented data-minded software engineers to help us manage business-critical data leveraged across the entire organization. If you are passionate about data, excited about designing data pipelines and data-driven user experiences, and motivated by having an outsized impact on the business, we want to hear from you.

Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.

What you'll do

Every record in our data warehouse is vitally important for the businesses that use Stripe, so we're looking for people with a strong background in software engineering and data to help us scale while maintaining correct and complete data. You'll work with a variety of internal teams across Product, Data Science, and GTM to help them solve their data needs. Your work will provide visibility into how these stakeholders and the Data Foundations organization are performing and how we can deliver a better experience to Stripe's customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and own data pipelines, models, and products that power the Product, Data Science, and GTM functions
• Develop strong subject matter expertise and manage the service level agreements for both data pipelines and full stack web applications that support these critical stakeholders
• Build and refine Stripe's data foundations - infrastructure, pipelines, and tools to enable various teams at Stripe - working with Scala, Spark, and Airflow
• Leverage LLMs and Agents at scale to produce high-quality data on ambiguous problems
• Refine our existing data marts that help the GTM organization forecast the future potential performance of the business and reliably measure ongoing attainment toward targets
• Build data services that track key product metrics and measure the impact of different strategies employed by teams in the field
• Our tech stack is Spark, Scala, Java, SQL, and Python - and while we don't expect everyone on the team to be an expert in all of these, you will work across all of these technologies throughout your tenure on the team.

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

• Must have 6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role, with a focus on building and maintaining data services or data-intensive applications
• A strong engineering background and an interest in data
• Prior experience with writing and debugging data pipelines using a distributed data framework (Spark, Hadoop, Pig, etc.)
• 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
• The ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements, and architect shared datasets

Preferred qualifications

• Experience creating and maintaining data marts to power business reporting needs Experience working with Product or GTM (Sales and Marketing) teams