Software Engineer, Data Warehouse Analytics

Stripe

Stripe

Software Engineering, Data Science
Canada · Remote
Posted on Aug 21, 2024

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.
A remote location, in most cases, is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently or plan to live.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is C$172,000 - C$258,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Remote locations

Remote in Canada

Team

Data Platform

Job type

Full time