Engineering Manager, Data Orchestration Platform
Core
Lead the end-to-end ownership of Stripe's internal data workflow scheduling platform (Airflow), ensuring reliability and driving architectural modernization for hundreds of engineering teams.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Orchestration Platform
Builds
Airflow (Stripe's internal data workflow scheduling platform), including infrastructure, deployment systems, and migration roadmap
Domain
Financial infrastructure / Data Engineering / Workflow Orchestration
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management, team building and mentoring, platform roadmap definition, cross-team dependency resolution, operational reliability management, large-scale system design, capacity planning, cost-performance trade-offs
Preferred skills
Managing remote/distributed teams, deep expertise in Airflow, experience with Spark/Kafka/AWS S3, navigating strategic ambiguity, building developer tooling
Technologies
Airflow, Spark, Kafka, AWS S3
Responsibilities
Define multi-year platform direction and drive adoption; Build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams; Maintain Tier-0 operational reliability; Guide high-stakes architectural decisions for workflow scheduling and migrations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management scope
