Engineering Manager, Data Transformation

The Data Transformation team is responsible for building and operating batch and real-time transformation pipelines and platforms for 400+ product teams at Stripe. We're aiming to make data development and management workflow at Stripe a breeze with emphasis on producing high-quality datasets used for critical analy...

We empower our users ranging from data scientists to engineers building pipelines to create exceptional Stripe product experiences while providing a robust transformation platform for critical dashboarding, analytics, and workflows at Stripe including user-facing reporting products Sigma and Radar.

We adopt a combination of open-source technologies and in-house-built software to ensure high scalability, reliability, and usability of our transformation offerings. Key example technologies include Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Hive, S3, SQL, Python, Scala, GRPC, Kafka, and FlinkSQL.

As an Engineering Manager of the Data Transformation team, you'll lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance the Data Transformation roadmap and adoption at Stripe. You'll drive critical workstreams for the topmost priorities at Stripe around delivering high-quality, materialized datasets for Stripe products and AI agents.
Deliver infrastructure and services that scale to our users' needs with an eye on reliability and efficiency
Lead and manage a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support key infrastructure engineering initiatives
Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet those needs
Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, vision, direction, requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports
Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer-term vision of the Data Transformation roadmap
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

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
3+ years of experience managing teams that shipped and operated data pipelines and critical distributed system infrastructure
Successfully recruited and built great teams
Strong customer focus, committed to investing in partnerships with other Stripe engineers to establish empathy and understand their use cases
Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs
Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment
Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions
Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that's both challenging and supportive
Managed teams that shipped products to data users and operated large-scale, high-availability data transformation pipelines, with expertise in Kafka, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Python, SQL, and API design
A genuine enjoyment of learning and diving into the nuts-and-bolts of how things work, with the ability to question and direct architectural decisions
Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide)