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Staff Backend Engineer, Datalake Platform

Stripe · Dublin

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
66 days
Stripe's roles stay open a median of 66 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
3% of Stripe's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Stripe
high
491 stale, 52 reposted of 633 open
Hiring momentum
892 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Stripe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Stripe.

About this role

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Datalake Platform at Stripe, you will architect and lead the transition to a multi-cloud architecture while overseeing the design of a unified Iceberg platform for data management. Your role involves collaborating with security and compliance teams to integrate regulatory requirements into the platform, driving cost efficiency at scale, and mentoring other engineers through architectural decisions. This position is critical in shaping the data infrastructure that supports a wide range of teams across the company.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Stripe as an employer.

What you need

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of Backend/Infrastructure Software Engineering experience
  • 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

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • In-office expectations require at least 50% time in the office, with some teams requiring 100%
  • The role involves leading significant architectural transitions, which may come with high stakes and pressure

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Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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