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Staff Engineer, Data Engineering Solutions
About the role
Stripe, a leading financial infrastructure platform, seeks a Staff Engineer in Data Engineering Solutions to drive high-impact data initiatives. The role involves leading a team of engineers, designing and scaling robust data pipelines, and ensuring data quality across billions of events daily. Candidates will collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to build canonical datasets, data warehouses, and AI-powered tools. Responsibilities include mentoring staff, recruiting top talent, managing SLAs, and overseeing end-to-end delivery of data solutions. The ideal candidate brings over a decade of engineering experience, deep expertise in distributed data frameworks (Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Trino), backend development (Scala, Java, Go), and strong SQL skills. Passion for data, customer focus, and a collaborative mindset are essential. Preferred experience includes Iceberg, CDC, AWS, and open-source contributions. This full-time, on-site position in Bengaluru offers the opportunity to shape Stripe’s data culture and empower product teams with trustworthy data.
What you’ll do
- Lead technical outcomes, mentor team.
- Partner with recruiting to hire talent.
- Deliver scalable, reliable data pipelines.
- Manage SLAs for pipelines and web apps.
- Collaborate with PMs to improve datasets and warehouses.
- Leverage AI/LLM to analyze data.
- Use Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino, Pinot, Airflow, Scala, Java, SQL, Python.
- Drive key data initiatives, oversee lifecycle.
- Foster collaborative, inclusive environment.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ yrs engineering, 5+ yrs data pipelines, led small teams.
- Strong engineering background, passion for data.
- Built/debugged pipelines with Spark/Hadoop/Trino.
- Investigates data inconsistencies, resolves quality issues.
- Backend dev skills (Scala/Java/Go) and strong SQL.
- Customer-focused, partners with PMs and leaders.
- Collaborates cross-functionally, communicates clearly.
- Thrives with autonomy in ambiguous settings.
- Promotes inclusive, supportive team culture.
Nice to have
- Expert in Iceberg, Kafka, CDC, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive, Pinot, Trino, AWS, open-source.
- Built data marts/warehouses for business reporting.
- Worked with GTM (Sales/Marketing) teams.
- Enjoys innovation, questions architecture.
- Strong written and verbal communication.