Engineering Manager, Data Orchestration Platform

Stripe

Hybrid Actively hiring
Seattle, WA Posted 10 days ago $236,000–$354,000 / year
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TL;DR

Join the Data Orchestration team at Stripe as an Engineering Manager, leading a high-impact platform that underpins data workflows across the company. You will own Airflow’s roadmap, driving its evolution to meet the needs of diverse engineering teams and ensuring reliability for thousands of daily production workflows. Your responsibilities include building and mentoring a talented team, making critical architectural decisions, and fostering operational excellence. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of software development experience, with at least five in management roles, and deep expertise in Airflow and related data technologies like Spark and Kafka. This role offers significant influence across teams and the opportunity to modernize a crucial internal platform, impacting Stripe’s data infrastructure on a large scale.

Skills

Airflow Python Kubernetes Docker CI/CD AWS Spark Kafka S3 Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Own the multi-year roadmap for Airflow at Stripe.
  • Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team.
  • Ensure operational reliability for Tier-0 data workflows.
  • Guide architectural decisions on workflow scheduling and platform migrations.
  • Drive adoption of next-generation data orchestration platforms across teams.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of professional software development and engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of direct engineering management experience with high-performing teams.
  • Proven track record of driving infrastructure efficiency and cost-performance trade-offs.
  • Experience in building, scaling, and operating large-scale workflow orchestration systems.
  • Deep expertise in Apache Airflow and familiarity with the broader data ecosystem.
  • Ability to navigate strategic ambiguity and deliver complex multi-quarter projects.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills in a global organization.

Employer

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 48 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $178,600–$264,500 across 48 roles with salary data.

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