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 Big Data Infrastructure operates the critical infrastructure that powers the batch data processing at Stripe. The team supports a variety of use cases, including Payment, Ledger, ML, Fraud Detection, Product Analytics, Regulatory Reporting, Financial Data Reconciliation, and externally facing products like Radar and Sigma. As an example of the scale, the team’s systems serve hundreds of teams, thousands of workflows, 100,000+ task executions, O(billion) transformations, and moving terabytes of data processing over 1 GB/second every day. Our users inside Stripe include other engineering teams, Data Scientists, Sales & Operations, Finance, etc.
Data Orchestration builds and operates the time-based and event-based orchestration infrastructure that powers and accelerates batch data pipelines. The team operates on a wide range of tech stacks including Airflow, Spark, SQL, Kafka, Flink, Hive MetaStore, Trino, Pinot, Python, Java, Scala, S3, and Iceberg.
What you’ll do
As a Software Engineer on our team, you will do the following:
- Design, build, and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of key Data Platform products, with an emphasis on usability, reliability, security, and efficiency.
- Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions that build a great customer experience for internal Stripes, that will in turn enhance the experience of millions of Stripe users.
- Ensure operational excellence and enable a highly available & reliable Data Orchestration platform across batch workloads.
- Collaborate nimbly with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives - while building a robust platform that benefits all of Stripe in the long term.
- Plan for the growth of Stripe’s infrastructure by unblocking, supporting, and communicating proactively with internal partners to achieve results. ● Connect your work with improvements in the usability and reliability of Open Source Software (OSS) like Apache Airflow, Iceberg, Spark and contribute back to the OSS community.
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
- 8+ years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs and interest in Data Infrastructure.
- Has experience operating or enabling large-scale, high-availability data pipelines from design, to execution and safe change management. Expertise in Spark, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, Java, SQL, and API design is a plus.
- Has experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
- Has experience building infrastructure-as-a-product with a strong focus on users needs
- Has strong collaboration and communication skills, and can comfortably interact with both technical and non-technical participants.
- Has the curiosity to continuously learn about new technologies and business processes.
- Is energized by delivering effective, user-first solutions through creative problem-solving and collaboration.
Preferred qualifications
- Has experience writing production-level code in Expertise in Scala, Spark, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, Java, and SQL is a plus.
- Has experience designing APIs or building developer platforms ● Has experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems ● Has experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment ● Has experience working with Airflow Infrastructure.
- Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work
Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.
Office location - Bengaluru , KA, India
Skills Required
- 8+ years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs
- Experience operating or enabling large-scale, high-availability data pipelines
- Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems
- Experience building infrastructure-as-a-product
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stripe and has not been reviewed or approved by Stripe.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is positioned as comprehensive across mental, physical, and medical plans. Mental-health support is repeatedly surfaced as a meaningful part of overall coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave and fertility benefits are highlighted as core elements of the package. Leave-related benefits are portrayed as a standout area of support for families.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is framed as a relative strength compared to other parts of the employee experience. Pay is frequently characterized as competitive and, for many roles, perceived as fair in absolute terms.
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What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
