Principal Data Engineer
StripeSan Francisco, CAremote$218K–$346KPlatformPosted 23d ago · Aug 22, 2026
Stripe is hiring a principal data engineer to work on data engineering for payments infrastructure for internet businesses.
What you would own
- Own the ingestion and transformation pipelines behind core analytics datasets.
- Design schemas and contracts that downstream teams can depend on.
- Improve pipeline reliability, freshness and cost per processed terabyte.
- Partner with analytics and product teams to model new domains.
Skills
AirflowdbtAWSKafkaSnowflakeRubyGoScalaTerraformIceberg
What Agraph knows about Stripe
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Employees
8.9K
-1.9% 90d
Open roles
214
-18% 30d
Remote share
41%
Activity score
79
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Hiring slowdown
Stripe engineering postings concentrated into fewer teams
Open engineering roles have narrowed to payments reliability and risk, with growth, internal tools and several platform teams no longer posting.
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