Software Engineer, Change data capture

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripes Change Data Capture (CDC) system powers the companys data infrastructure by streaming real-time database changes into the Stripe Data Lake. That low-latency feed unlocks timely insights and workflows across Payments Ledger machine learning fraud detection product analytics regulatory reporting and financial reconciliation and it underpins externally facing tools like Radar and Sigma. CDC operates at production scale (1M events/sec) and supports a broad user base: engineering teams data scientists sales & operations and finance.

CDC provides multiple products that let customers backfill historical data stream realtime changes into the Data Lake and archive records to queryoptimized analytics stores all without compromising the reliability maintainability or scalability of our transactional databases (for example MongoDB).

What youll do

As a Software Engineer on our team you will do the following:

• Design build and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of key CDC products with an emphasis on usability reliability security and efficiency.
• Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions that build a great customer experience for internal Stripes that will in turn enhance the experience of millions of Stripe users.
• Ensure operational excellence and enable a highly available & reliable CDC Platform.
• Collaborate nimbly with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives - while building a robust platform that benefits all of Stripe in the long term.
• Plan for the growth of Stripes infrastructure by unblocking supporting and communicating proactively with internal partners to achieve results.
• Connect your work with improvements in the usability and reliability of Open Source Software (OSS) like Debezium and contribute back to the OSS community.

Who you are

Were 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

• 8 years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs and interest in Data Infrastructure.
• Has experience operating or enabling large-scale high-availability data pipelines from design to execution and safe change management. Expertise in Spark Flink Spark Airflow Python Java SQL and API design is a plus.
• Has experience developing maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
• Has experience building infrastructure-as-a-product with a strong focus on users needs
• Has strong collaboration and communication skills and can comfortably interact with both technical and non-technical participants.
• Has the curiosity to continuously learn about new technologies and business processes.
• Is energized by delivering effective user-first solutions through creative problem-solving and collaboration.

Preferred qualifications

• Has experience writing production-level code in Expertise in Java Go Scala and Airflow is a plus.
• Has experience designing APIs or building developer platforms
• Has experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
• Has experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment Has experience working with Airflow Infrastructure.
• Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Office location - Bengaluru KA India