Software Engineer, Plaid
$207.6-339.6k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office (Spring Street, NY)
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Be an early applicant
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$207.6-339.6k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office (Spring Street, NY)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 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. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Desirable
- Demonstrated curiosity about evolving storage technologies and performance optimization techniques
- Production experience with Go and TypeScript
- Experience applying security best practices in storage or infrastructure systems
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And about a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs).
The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts. This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Zach was a Consultant at Bain and a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid ion 2012.
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