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), infrastructure, and deployment systems
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, capacity planning, cost-performance trade-offs, architectural decision making
Preferred skills
Managing remote/distributed teams, large-scale workflow orchestration infrastructure, Airflow expertise, Spark/Kafka/AWS S3 ecosystem knowledge, strategic project delivery
Technologies
Airflow, Spark, Kafka, AWS S3
Responsibilities
Define the multi-year direction for Airflow and drive adoption across the organization; Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team; Maintain unwavering reliability for a Tier-0 platform; Guide the team through high-stakes architectural decisions in workflow scheduling and large-scale migrations
