StripeSoftware Engineer, Stripe Data Pipeline
Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer, Stripe Data Pipeline in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Stripe.
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- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions APIs, distributed systems and data pipelines among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Stripe has 756 other open roles on Level.
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Designs and builds large-scale distributed data pipelines and merchant-facing data infrastructure at Stripe.
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
Stripe Data Pipeline—The Stripe Data Pipeline (SDP) team owns a critical product that delivers all of a merchant's Stripe data directly into their data warehouse. We serve major technology companies and Fortune 100 enterprises, delivering petabytes of data daily with high reliability, low latency, and strong correctness guarantees. SDP is marching towards 99.99% availability and near real-time data freshness across multiple warehouse platforms. Merchants depend on this data for their own billing, reconciliation and analytics, and the quality of what we deliver has immediate, visible impact. The systems are distributed, multi-tenant, and operate under strict SLAs. You will work on hard problems at the intersection of data infrastructure, merchant-facing product, and operational excellence.
What you'll do
As a Software Engineer, you'll design and build platforms and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You'll partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on financial platform systems, as well as direct user-facing business impact.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across engineering teams at Stripe.
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale.
• Maintain a collaborative environment, engaging in discussions and decision-making processes with stakeholders within various domains at Stripe.
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
• 7+ years of experience in delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns and practices, especially in the financial industry.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high-quality code.
• You have great product taste and a track record of taking complex problems and solving them elegantly.
• You are capable of working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and have a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.
Preferred qualifications
• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems
• Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe
How we rate this
Software Engineer, Stripe Data Pipeline at Stripe rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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