Stripe Data Engineer jobs
No Data Engineer title at Stripe; US data-infra openings are few, senior, and posted at $206K–$286K.
The Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Data Platforms) role
Stripe data engineering is infrastructure engineering: building batch orchestration (Airflow, Spark, Iceberg), streaming and incremental transformation (Flink, Kafka), and serving layers (Trino, Pinot) that power payments, the ledger, fraud (Radar), reporting (Sigma) and financial reconciliation. There is no separate ‘Data Engineer’ title; candidates apply as backend or infrastructure software engineers and are team-matched. Pay is posted in the high-$200Ks for senior US roles.
No dedicated DE ladder: data work is Backend and Infrastructure SWE (Stripe L1–L7 on the software-engineer family). The data infrastructure orgs are Big Data Infrastructure (batch processing serving hundreds of teams and 100,000+ task executions a day), Data Transformation (batch and real-time pipelines for 400+ product teams, powering Sigma and Radar) and Data Infrastructure (Trino/Presto, Pinot, Hive Metastore)..
Stripe data engineer salary
Base: the posted Washington base range on ‘Senior Software Engineer, Backend’ (petabyte-scale financial data platforms and pipelines), Seattle, first published Sep 24, 2026 and read Oct 10, 2026. This is a Senior level: no mid-level data req is open, and Stripe’s generic Seattle ‘Software Engineer’ range is $156,800–$235,200. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi’s Stripe Data Engineer page has only four US data points (median $400k), too few to publish as a range.
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