Staff Software Engineer, Stream Compute

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Stripe

Stripe

Stripe is a global technology company that provides financial infrastructure for the internet. They offer a suite of APIs and tools for businesses to accept online and in-person payments, automate financial processes, and embed financial services in th...

Diversified Financial Services
5K-10K
Founded 2009
$8700M raised

Description

  • Design, build, and operate stream compute infrastructure centered on Apache Flink and related technologies such as Kafka, Temporal, and AWS services.
  • Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to understand needs, unblock Flink adoption, and improve end-to-end infrastructure usage.
  • Define and implement operational best practices to improve resilience, reliability, and scalability at fleet level.
  • Drive automation and standardization through self-service workflows, safer rollouts, and self-healing systems that reduce manual operations.
  • Lead initiatives to improve Flink availability and state durability, including multi-region strategies, disaster recovery readiness, and incident learning.
  • Evaluate and productionize Flink ecosystem capabilities such as SQL, connectors, and state backends to improve developer experience and scalability.
  • Work with the open source community to adopt new features and contribute improvements back to open source projects.
  • Set long-term technical direction for Stripe’s stream compute infrastructure to support reliable global operations.
  • Work on production challenges such as state management, exactly-once processing, performance isolation, and automated recovery.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale production systems.
  • Experience as a technical lead for teams working on distributed systems in fast-moving environments.
  • Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Pulsar, or Pinot.
  • Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools.
  • Experience building and scaling infrastructure as a product.
  • Strong software engineering skills and a passion for big data distributed systems.
  • Ability to write high-quality code in languages such as Go, Java, or Scala.
  • Comfort operating with high autonomy and ownership.
  • Growth mindset and willingness to learn quickly, explore ambiguous problem spaces, and dive deep when needed.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation.
  • Experience operating streaming infrastructure as a platform for internal customers at scale, preferred.
  • Deep hands-on experience with real-time processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark Streaming, Storm, or Kafka Streams, preferred.
  • Experience building or operating control planes for managing large-scale infrastructure, preferred.
  • Open source contributions to data processing or big data systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Celeborn, or Flink, preferred.

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