# Senior Staff Engineer, Big Data Infrastructure at Stripe

> Lead the Big Data Infrastructure organization, scaling data orchestration, batch compute, and data lake systems for Stripe's engineers.

- Company: Stripe (stripe.com)
- Location: San Francsico
- Places: San Francsico
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Level: Senior Staff
- Team: Big Data Infrastructure
- Apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8317306
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/senior-staff-engineer-big-data-infrastructure-stripe-kn78jhskn8jzkwmcn2pzrk8wxh8hmhc0

## The posting

Senior Staff Engineer, Big Data Infrastructure
Stripe · San Francsico

## **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**

In this role, you’d be joining the Big Data Infrastructure team. Our team builds and maintains the platforms that power data work across Stripe, managing three core layers:

- Data Orchestration (Airflow)
- Batch Compute (Spark, Celeborn)
- Data Lake (Iceberg, Hive, S3, Azure Blob Storage)

We support over 2,000 engineers and 600+ internal teams, processing workloads that organically grow more than 30% year over year. Our infrastructure handles massive scale, managing over 800 PB of data, running 325,000 applications a day, and accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars in annual spend, directly powering critical pipelines like inbound payments, network reconciliation, and capital underwriting.

## **What you’ll do**

As the technical leader for the Big Data Infrastructure organization, you will guide a 40+ person engineering team to scale our foundational data systems. You will partner closely with major internal customers like Data Foundations, Payins Engineering, and AI/ML Foundations to modernize our tech stack and execute Stripe's transition to the "Agentic Era" - building "invisible infrastructure" where AI agents operate data pipelines end-to-end.

### **Responsibilities**

- Serve as the technical leader for the Big Data Infrastructure organization, overseeing distributed systems that manage 20% of Stripe's total AWS spend
- Execute Stripe's transition to the "Agentic Era" by building invisible infrastructure that empowers AI agents to author, validate, ship, and operate data pipelines
- Drive the architecture and delivery of critical modernization bets, including YARN to Kubernetes migrations, native vectorization (Gluten/Velox), and Airflow and Data Catalog modernization
- Lead the implementation of a multi-region and multi-cloud data strategy for high availability, disaster recovery, and Azure Blob Storage compliance
- Reduce operational burden and maintenance overhead (KTLO) from over 40% to under 10% by shifting fixes into the platform instead of relying on runbooks
- Foster a culture of operational excellence and mentor engineers at various stages in their careers, up to Staff+

## **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 a related field
- This is a Senior Staff role, so ideally 12+ years of professional experience in a software development role
- A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure and/or platform services, including one or more of the following: storage, databases, or compute
- Experience leading projects on a cross-team and company-wide scale, including scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
- Expe