Staff Software Engineer, Plaid

• Strong software engineering experience with deep focus on backend and/or platform systems
• Deep expertise in storage technologies
• Experience deploying and orchestrating databases at scale
• Strong background in database performance optimization, preferably with SQL databases
• Experience designing and evolving storage platforms
• Infrastructure experience with tools such as Terraform and AWS
• Hands-on experience with databases such as TiDB, MySQL, or MongoDB
• Experience building internal tooling and automation to improve reliability and developer efficiency
• We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description

Desirable

• The Online Storage team is growing
• We build the storage layer backing Plaid’s Core Data Models used by all of engineering
• The goal is to evolve Plaid’s storage systems to be more reliable, scalable, performant, and efficient
• As an engineer on the storage team, you will have the opportunity to influence the strategy of the team and design, deploy, and scale the online storage platform at Plaid
• You will build services and tools to improve operation automations
• You will optimize query performance and infrastructure cost
• You will wield terraform and cloud resources with confidence and certainty
• You will partner with our stakeholder teams to understand their current storage and future storage requirements
• You will improve the user experience that partner teams have interacting with the storage platform
• You'll build and scale systems to support large datasets and high-throughput workloads with strong performance and reliability guarantees
• Design and evolve resilient, distributed storage systems that operate reliably
• Navigate ambiguity and drive clarity across complex storage and infrastructure challenges
• Diagnose and resolve deeply technical issues within storage engines, including analyzing internal behavior and, when necessary, diving into source code
• Lead careful, reliability-focused migrations that minimize risk and ensure seamless transitions for dependent systems
• Build foundational storage capabilities that significantly reduce friction for product engineers, enabling teams to move faster and more confidently