# Data Scientist

**Company:** [Stripe](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 193K–288K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-09-22

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/data-scientist-8222149)

## What you'll do

- Scope, design, build, maintain APIs/services for billions of money movements
- Design next-gen Stripe products for high growth
- Analyze requirements, translate to technical specs
- Review API launches for compatibility, patterns, extensibility
- Mentor early-career engineers, construct engineering tenets

## What you need

- Master's + 5 yrs data science or Bachelor's + 7 yrs
- 4 yrs SQL, Python/R, model development & deployment
- 4 yrs translating data analysis to business outcomes
- 4 yrs writing product strategy/technical design docs
- 3 yrs designing/analyzing production experiments

## Job description

### **Who we are**

### **About Stripe**

Stripe, LLC. 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.

### **What you’ll do**

### **Responsibilities**

-   Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests;
-   Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers;
-   Analyze product requirements, user needs and feedback and translate them into technical specifications and determine the feasibility of design, taking into account cost and time constraints;
-   Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards;
-   Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company;
-   Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers; and
-   Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.

### **Who you are**

### **Minimum requirements**

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Data Analytics, Engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of related work experience in data science or quantitative modeling. 

In the alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Data Analytics, Engineering or a related field, plus 7 years of related work experience in data science or quantitative modeling, of which at least 5 years must be post-bachelor’s progressive related work experience.

Must also have 4 years’ experience in each of the following:

-   SQL;
-   Programming languages including Python or R;
-   Developing models and tuning thresholds to drive business outcomes and deployment of the same model in production;
-   Translating complex data analysis into actionable business outcomes;
-   Writing or contributing to product strategy, roadmap, or technical design documents;

Must have 3 years of experience in:

-   Designing and analyzing production experiments to drive strategic and technical outcomes.

Salary: $193,232 - 288,000/yr

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted

Multiple Positions Available. 

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. **WA53**

### **#LI-DNI**

## Other open roles at Stripe

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- [Product Design Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/product-design-intern-8332683) — Toronto
- [Product Design Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/product-design-intern-8332681) — San Francisco, Seattle, New York City
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