# Staff Software Engineer, Product Risk

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Airflow, Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, SQL, Scala, Java, Go, Apache Iceberg, Change Data Capture, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, Aws Cloud
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Leads a team delivering reliable, scalable data pipelines, warehouses, and supporting applications for critical product-risk use cases. The role requires 10+ years building and operating data systems, distributed data-processing expertise, backend programming, strong SQL, and technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the technical outcomes for a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support.
- Partner with recruiting to attract and hire top talent.
- Deliver reliable, efficient data pipelines that scale to user needs.
- Develop subject matter expertise and manage SLAs for data pipelines and full-stack web applications supporting critical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product managers and peers to create and improve canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure trustworthy data.
- Leverage AI, LLMs, and agents at scale to produce and analyze high-quality data for ambiguous problems.
- Drive key data initiatives across the development lifecycle, from planning through delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timeliness.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating data systems, pipelines, warehouses, and infrastructure, and leading teams to deliver solutions.
- Strong engineering background and passion for data.
- Experience writing and debugging data pipelines using distributed data frameworks.
- Ability to investigate data inconsistencies and resolve deep-rooted data quality issues.
- Knowledge of a backend development language such as Scala, Java, or Go.
- Strong SQL experience.
- Strong customer focus and ability to partner with product leaders and engineers to understand use cases.
- Effective cross-functional collaboration, clear communication, and sound decision-making.
- Ability to work with high autonomy and responsibility in ambiguous environments.
- Ability to foster and contribute to a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, or AWS Cloud.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Experience creating and maintaining data marts or warehouses for business reporting.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Go-To-Market, Sales, or Marketing teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical, leadership, user, and company-wide audiences.

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