Staff Software Engineer, Data Quality and Governance

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Data Quality and Governance owns the infrastructure that makes Stripe's data trustworthy and findable - the Data Catalog, the Knowledge Graph Service, dataset tiering and governance standards, lineage tracking, and the quality scoring system (DQPD) that every engineering team reports against. They're the team that defines what "good data" means at Stripe and then builds the enforcement and measurement tools to drive adoption across the company. What you’ll do Responsibilities • Lead the technical outcomes for a team of ambitious, talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success • Build and operate large-scale data discovery, metadata, or catalog platform • Develop strong subject matter expertise and manage the SLAs of data pipelines and full stack web applications that support critical stakeholders • Collaborate with product managers and peers across the company to create/improve canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure Stripes and customers are using trustworthy data • Leverage AI/LLM and Agents at scale to produce and analyze high-quality data on ambiguous problems • Have the opportunity to drive the execution of key data initiatives for Stripe, overseeing the entire developmen…