Data Scientist
Stripe · Seattle, WA · Global Operations · listed September 22, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
3–7 years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$193,232 – $288,000
Requirements listed
6
Length
439 words
In the posting’s own words
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA53
What it asks for · 6
- SQL;
- Programming languages including Python or R;
- Developing models and tuning thresholds to drive business outcomes and deployment of the same model in production;
- Translating complex data analysis into actionable business outcomes;
- Writing or contributing to product strategy, roadmap, or technical design documents;
- Designing and analyzing production experiments to drive strategic and technical outcomes.
What the job covers
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests;
- Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers;
- Analyze product requirements, user needs and feedback and translate them into technical specifications and determine the feasibility of design, taking into account cost and time constraints;
- Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards;
- Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company;
- Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers; and
- Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.
Tools and skills named
Data
- Statistics2×
Languages
- Python
- SQL
Product & design
- Product strategy
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- data5×
- design5×
- experience5×
- related5×
- technical4×
- product3×
- analytics engineering2×
- business outcomes2×
- data analytics2×
- data science2×
- degree foreign2×
- drive2×
- engineering related2×
- engineers2×
- equivalent statistics2×
- experience data2×
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