Software Engineer, Stripe
Data Warehouse Analytics
CA$172-258k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$172-258k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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