Stripe
Data Scientist
$193K–$288K
Seattle, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
US-PERM - Experience
- 5 years with a master’s degree, or 7 years with a bachelor’s degree (including at least 5 post-bachelor’s progressive years); also 4 years in specified areas and 3 years designing and analyzing production experiments.
- Education
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; alternatively, Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in one of those fields.
About the job
The posting describes engineering work building Stripe APIs and large-scale systems, designing products, and setting technical standards, despite the Data Scientist title.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems for money movement.
- Design Stripe products and translate user needs and product requirements into technical specifications.
- Review API launches and library designs, represent the team in technical meetings, mentor engineers, and establish engineering principles.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of related data science or quantitative modeling experience; alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in a related field plus 7 years of related experience, including at least 5 years of post-bachelor’s progressive related experience.
- 4 years of experience with SQL and programming languages including Python or R.
- 4 years of experience developing and tuning models to drive business outcomes and deploying models in production, and translating complex data analysis into actionable business outcomes.
- 4 years of experience writing or contributing to product strategy, roadmap, or technical design documents; 3 years designing and analyzing production experiments.
Pay
$193,232 - 288,000/yr (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python, R
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