Remote Engineering Manager, Data Movement

Summary

Join Stripe's Data Movement team as a manager to drive the technical vision of the platform and lead a team in solving high-impact distributed system problems.

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

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, creating significant impact by mitigating fraud-related losses and providing fresher data for Money Movement and Reporting
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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