Staff Backend Engineer, Datalake Platform
Stripe · Dublin · 8125 Core Compute · listed June 30, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
6
Length
838 words
In the posting’s own words
The Datalake team builds and maintains Stripe's foundational data access and governance infrastructure — the paved path for safe, fast, and compliant access to Stripe's critical big data assets. We serve developers, data engineers, analysts, ML and AI teams, security teams, and business users across the company. The team is in the middle of a significant architectural transition as Stripe grows. We are making Stripe's data lake a first-class citizen of the modern data ecosystem to support our growing scale and diverse workloads.
What it asks for · 6
- 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.
- Deep expertise in Apache Iceberg — table format internals, the REST Catalog specification, snapshot lifecycle management, compaction, and compute engine integration (Spark, Trino, Flink, PyIceberg).
- 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.
Tools and skills named
Security & compliance
- Security3×
- Audit2×
- IAM2×
- Regulatory2×
Data
- Data warehouse2×
- Spark2×
- Data pipelines
Frameworks
- REST2×
Cloud & infra
- Azure
Models & research
- Machine learning
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- data18×
- design9×
- infrastructure9×
- storage9×
- access8×
- platform7×
- technical7×
- architectural6×
- experience5×
- migration5×
- scale5×
- access control4×
- authorization4×
- critical4×
- deep4×
- engineering4×
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