The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
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 Stripes and customers are using trustworthy data
Leverage AI/LLM and Agents at scale to produce and analyze high-quality data on ambiguous problems
What they're looking for
- This is a Staff-level role: that typically means 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
