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title: 'Staff Backend Engineer, Datalake Platform at Stripe'
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# Staff Backend Engineer, Datalake Platform at Stripe

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8035723

## Job description

## 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 Datalake team builds and maintains Stripe's foundational data access and governance infrastructure — the paved path for safe, fast, and compliant access to Stripe's critical big data assets. We serve developers, data engineers, analysts, ML and AI teams, security teams, and business users across the company. The team is in the middle of a significant architectural transition as Stripe grows. We are making Stripe's data lake a first-class citizen of the modern data ecosystem to support our growing scale and diverse workloads.

What Makes This Role Compelling

- Foundational infrastructure with broad reach: The Datalake team's systems sit in the critical path of nearly every data workload at Stripe. Decisions affect petabytes of data, hundreds of production pipelines, and every engineering team that builds on Stripe's data lake.
- Active, high-stakes architectural transformation: The team is executing a multi-year migration to modern, OSS-aligned solutions — a technically deep project with real architectural choices at each step, including API design, compute engine integration, authorization model, and per-table credential vending.
- Active, high-stakes, OSS-aligned architectural transformation: You will lead a multi-year migration to modern, open-source solutions like the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog. This is a technically deep project involving critical architectural choices at each step, from API design and compute engine integration to authorization models, where your opinions and technical influence will directly shape how the platform engages with the broader data infrastructure ecosystem.
- Storage platform ownership with room to define the approach: The team owns the object storage abstraction layer — access control, IAM policy design, lifecycle management, and compliance architecture — but the how is still being written. You'll shape how hundreds of engineering teams interact with petabytes of data, and the decisions you make will stick.
- At Stripe you’ll have the scale of the large company and the agency to influence technical strategy and the roadmap

## Responsibilities

- Architect the unified Iceberg platform: Lead the technical design of a metastore service as it becomes the single source of truth for Iceberg table management across all compute engines — Spark, Trino, Flink, and PyIceberg. Define the API contracts, authorization model, per-table credential vending, and integration patterns that every data pipeline at the company will depend on.
- Own the metastore migration strategy: Drive the sequencing, backward compatibility story, rollback approach, and cross-team coordination for migrating all remaining Hive Metastore-backed workloads to the new platform. This means coordinating with dozens of consuming teams while keeping production data infrastructure operational at all times.
- Shape the object storage abstraction: Define the storage abstraction layer — including bucket provisioning, access control policy design, and the developer-facing client libraries that make object storage ergonomic and secure by default. The goal is an abstraction layer that consuming teams can adopt without needing to become storage infrastructure experts themselves.
- Lead compliance architecture: Partner with security and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into durable preventative technical controls — audit logging, access review infrastructure, data segregation, and lifecycle enforcement — built into the platform rather than bolted on.
- Drive cost and efficiency at petabyte scale: Identify systemic inefficiencies in storage layout, snapshot retention, and data lifecycle, and design automated, self-service tooling that scales without ongoing manual intervention from the team.
- Set the technical bar: Own critical design reviews, establish standards for reliability, security, and developer experience, and mentor senior engineers through high-stakes architectural decisions. Provide the technical judgment that keeps the platform moving fast without accumulating structural debt.

## Who You Are

## Minimum requirements

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed storage or data infrastructure systems.
- Deep experience with object storage (S3, Azure Blob, or equivalent) — including IAM, access control policy design, lifecycle management, and operational practices at petabyte scale.
- Proven ability to lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure projects end-to-end, including cross-team dependency management and coordinating migrations across many consuming teams.
- Strong background in authorization and access control design for distributed data systems.

## Preferred requirements

- Deep expertise in Apache Iceberg — table format internals, the REST Catalog specification, snapshot lifecycle management, compaction, and compute engine integration (Spark, Trino, Flink, PyIceberg).
- Background in compliance-sensitive infrastructure — SOX, ICFR, or equivalent regulatory frameworks — with an understanding of how audit and access review requirements translate into preventative technical controls.
- Experience safely executing large-scale data migrations with a strong instinct for sequencing, blast radius reduction, rollback, and data integrity validation.
- A strong developer experience sensibility: the ability to build abstractions that are ergonomic, well-documented, and actively reduce toil for the engineering teams that depend on your platform.

## About Stripe

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / payments infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – from startups to global enterprises (e.g., Le Monde, trucking companies)
- Mission: “Increase the GDP of the internet” by making online commerce easier and more accessible

## Products & Services
- **Stripe Payments**: Accept and optimise payments globally – online and in person; supports 135+ currencies and payment methods [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Billing**: Manage subscriptions, invoices, and recurring revenue; over 200 million active subscriptions managed [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Connect**: Embed payments into platforms and marketplaces
- **Stripe Atlas**: Incorporate a company, get everything needed to fundraise and start selling
- **Stripe Terminal**: In-person payments with customisable card readers
- **Stripe Issuing**: Create and manage a card issuing programme
- **Stripe Climate**: Automatically contribute a fraction of revenue to carbon removal

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $1.9 trillion in payments volume processed in 2025 [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Infrastructure underpins more than 1% of global GDP [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - Over 8,000 employees across 25+ offices worldwide [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs)
  - 99.999% historical uptime for Stripe services [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
  - Deploys 10,000+ times per day while maintaining five 9s of reliability [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - 135+ currencies and payment methods supported [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Processes massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime – a level of trust few competitors match.
- **Developer‑First Experience**: Obsessive focus on API design, documentation, and ease of integration; “start with a blank screen, work until a product is ready, polish until exceptional” [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Global Reach**: Supports 135+ currencies and payment methods, with local offices in 25+ cities to serve regional needs.
- **Network Effects**: The more businesses use Stripe, the more data and infrastructure advantages accrue, making it harder to switch.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Agentic Commerce**: Building economic infrastructure for AI, including monetisation through agentic commerce [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Crypto & Stablecoins**: Enabling borderless money movement with stablecoins and crypto [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuing to add financial tools (billing, issuing, terminal, climate) that work individually or together.
- **Globalisation**: Deepening presence in markets like Japan, India, and Latin America.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Intense and kind” – high expectations paired with a supportive, transparent environment. Weekly all‑hands with senior leaders; decisions based on idea quality, not seniority [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Growth & Ownership**: “Promotions are tied to demonstrated impact, not tenure.” Employees get substantial responsibility early, often working outside their domain [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote‑friendly – two main HQs (San Francisco & Dublin) plus 25+ offices, and many Stripes work from home or coworking spaces [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, mental health, financial advisory, family planning, and parental leave. Education team provides onboarding and ongoing expert‑led courses [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits).
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee‑created resource groups (Stripe Communities), accommodations for disabilities, and a commitment to equal opportunity [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).

## Sources
1. [stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
2. [stripe.com/jobs](https://stripe.com/jobs)
3. [stripe.com/](https://stripe.com/)
4. [stripe.com/jobs/search](https://stripe.com/jobs/search)
5. [stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits)

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