Staff Software Engineer, Risk Data Engineering
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About the Position
Staff Software Engineer, Risk Data Engineering
Toronto, Canada
About the Company
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
Product and Risk Data Engineering is Stripe's single source of truth data engineering layer for Payments, Risk, and Product. We enable Stripe to confidently run, measure, and grow the business by making accurate information easy to access. We curate and maintain high-quality data warehouses and pipelines that serve as the authoritative foundation for product and financial activity across Stripe, powering analytics, ML capabilities, agentic workflows, and merchant-facing data interfaces.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Collaborate with product managers and peers across the company to create/improve canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure Stripe 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.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Staff-level role with typically 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.
- Ability to foster and work in a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with tools such as Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, and AWS Cloud.
- Influencing open-source contributions.
- Experience creating and maintaining data marts/warehouses to power business reporting needs.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Go-To-Market, or Sales/Marketing teams.
- Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work, with the ability to question and direct architectural decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for various audiences, including leadership, users, and company-wide.
We Offer
- Competitive compensation package.
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Collaborative and inclusive work culture.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
About the Company
Stripe is a leading financial infrastructure platform for businesses, empowering millions of companies worldwide to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Join our team and contribute to our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet.
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