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 team is responsible for offering data warehouse analytics capabilities for Stripe and the stack is supported by a collection of internally developed services and several popular open source technologies like Trino/Presto, Hive Metastore, etc. The systems we own support all of the data warehouse workloads initiated by both services and by individual Stripes across the company to support various business analytics use cases. We process hundreds of thousands of queries on petabytes of data per day and form the key data serving layer for one of the largest financial data lakes in the world. The team is distributed across the USA.
What you’ll do
You shall be a key contributor to the evolution of our platform and how Stripe analyzes its vast and ever growing data warehouse, to power ever evolving use-cases around analytics, reporting, fraud, AI/ML training, etc at scale. As a Software Engineer, you’ll be empowered to make decisions with a significant impact on Stripe while making our systems reliable, secure, and a delight to use.
Responsibilities:
- Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for Engineers within Stripe
- Build and maintain the infrastructure which powers the core of Stripe.
- Directly contribute to core interface design and write code.
- Work closely with the open source community to identify opportunities for adopting new open source features as well contribute back to the OSS.
- Plan for the growth of Stripe’s infrastructure. Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results.
- Ensure operational excellence and enable a highly available, reliable and secure Data Warehouse Analytics platform.
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
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field and interest in Data.
- 2-7 years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs.
- Have experience with distributed SQL query engines like Trino.
- Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools.
- Experience building infrastructure as a product centered around user needs.
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems.
- Experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience coding in Java, Scala, Golang.
- Experience working with distributed SQL query engine space.
- Familiarity designing APIs or building developer platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud-based environments such as AWS.
