Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, seeking an Engineering Manager for their Data Transformation team. The role involves leading a team of engineers to build and operate data transformation pipelines, ensuring high-quality datasets for analytics and workflows, while fostering collaboration and innovation within the team.
Responsibilities
- Deliver infrastructure and services that scale to our users needs with an eye on reliability and efficiency
- Lead and manage a team of talented engineers on the team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
- Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives
- Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs
- Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
- Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports
- Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe’s Data Transformation roadmap
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team
- Partners with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team
Skills
- 1 - 3 years of experience managing teams that shipped and operated data pipelines and critical distributed system infrastructure
- Successfully recruited and built great teams
- Extreme customer focus, committed to investing in partnerships with other Stripe engineers to establish empathy and understand their use-cases
- Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs
- Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment
- Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions
- Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that's both challenging and supportive
- Managed teams that shipped products to data users and operated large-scale, high-availability data transformation pipelines, with expertise in Kafka, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, SQL, and API design a plus
- A genuine enjoyment of learning and diving into the nuts-and-bolts of how things work, with the ability to question and direct architectural decisions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide)
Benefits
- Equity
- Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Wellness stipends
Company Overview
Stripe is a financial technology company that provides online payment processing and payment infrastructure for businesses. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://stripe.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Stripe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 40 in 2026, 272 in 2025, 283 in 2024, 141 in 2023, 379 in 2022, 276 in 2021, 111 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.