Engineering Manager, Data Transformation

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYSeattle, WA
Salary
$203,400–$305,200 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $219k
This role $254k
$152k most similar roles pay here $322k

This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $168,500–$270,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $254k versus about $219k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 173 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 171 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Data Transformation

As an Engineering Manager, Data Transformation, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building and operating batch and real-time transformation pipelines and platforms. You will manage the full development lifecycle, provide technical leadership on architecture and design, and collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering teams to advance the strategic roadmap for streaming transformation, incremental processing, and ergonomic data modeling. The role involves delivering high-quality, materialized datasets for products and AI agents while ensuring reliability and efficiency. You will work with a suite of technologies including Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Hive, S3, SQL, Python, Scala, GRPC, Kafka, and FlinkSQL. This position addresses the critical challenge of providing robust transformation platforms and high-quality datasets for analytics, dashboards, and workflows used by hundreds of internal product teams to improve developer productivity.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $267050 from 35 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead and manage a team of engineers by providing mentorship, guidance, and professional support.
  • Deliver scalable infrastructure and services for batch and real-time data transformation pipelines.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership regarding architecture, design, vision, and incident response processes.
  • Drive the execution of projects through the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery.
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to define and execute the long-term Data Transformation roadmap.
  • Identify user pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality data solutions.
  • Collaborate with recruiting teams to hire top talent and define team hiring strategies.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience managing teams that shipped and operated data pipelines and critical distributed system infrastructure.
  • Proven track record of successfully recruiting and building high-performing teams.
  • Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers regarding architecture and technical strategic decisions.
  • Ability to work effectively cross-functionally while making hard decisions and trade-offs in ambiguous environments.
  • Strong customer focus to build partnerships and understand the use cases of internal stakeholders.
  • Experience managing large-scale, high-availability data transformation pipelines using Kafka, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, SQL, and API design.
  • Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture, design, vision, and incident response processes.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences including leadership and end users.

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