Engineering Manager, Data Movement

Stripe - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Engineering Manager for Data Movement at Stripe will lead a team focused on building innovative solutions for real-time data ingestion into the company's data warehouse. This role involves overseeing the development of high-impact distributed systems, managing a talented engineering team, and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance data capabilities and drive significant business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cutting-edge infrastructure and product platforms that scale to users' needs, focusing on reliability and efficiency.
• Lead and manage a team of ambitious, talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.
• Drive the execution of a key initiative for the Data Platform at Stripe, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
• Collaborate with the product manager and key leaders across the company to create a shared roadmap and drive adoption of real-time datasets.
• Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes for your reports.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Partner with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing teams that shipped and operated data pipelines and critical distributed system infrastructure.
• Proven success in recruiting and building great teams.
• Extreme customer focus, with a commitment to partnering with Product Managers, leaders, and other Stripe engineers to understand their use cases.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate difficult decisions and trade-offs.
• Thrives with high autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers on architecture and strategic technical decisions.
• Ability to foster a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing high-velocity teams that shipped products to data users and operated large-scale, high-availability data transformation pipelines.
• Expertise in Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Trino, and influencing open-source contributions is a plus.
• Genuine enjoyment of innovation and a deep interest in understanding how things work, with the ability to question and direct architectural decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for various audiences, including leadership, users, and company-wide.