Experienced Software Engineer, Plaid

• 4 + years of dedicated backend or platform experience
• 4+ years of specialization in storage technologies
• 8+ years of experience total
• Deployment and orchestration of DBs at scale
• Deep technical background in performance optimization for DBs (preferably SQL DBs)
• Background in storage platform design
• Infrastructure background (Terraform, AWS)
• Database background (TiDB, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience building custom CLI tooling and dynamic runbooks to automate your procedures
• [Nice to have] Interest in future developments and optimizations in data storage technology
• [Nice to have] Golang and Typescript proficiency
• [Nice to have] Background with security best practices

• We build the storage layer backing Plaid’s Core Data Models used by all of engineering
• The goal is to improve 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 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
• Large dataset and high throughput scalability
• Designing resilient, distributed systems
• Handling ambiguity of challenging open world problems
• Fixing difficult issues in storage engines by understanding their inner workings, potentially diving into source code
• Meticulous and reliability-focused migrations
• Saving product engineers days and weeks of effort through our storage foundation’s capabilities

• Monthly wellness stipend (gym on us)
• We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner to keep you well-fed and healthy (when working from the office)
• From medical, life, dental and pension schemes, we’re here to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing
• We want everyone to feel ownership over their work - literally, which is why we offer equity to full-time Plaids
• Every Plaid is in control of their career development with our learning stipends, tools, and trainings
• We give Plaids the freedom and flexibility to choose where they work - whether that is in a Plaid office, at home in any supported location, or a mix of both!
• Two weeks of synchronous, company-wide vacation
• We want to make sure you have time to meet your personal needs with unlimited PTO

Total funding: $734.3m

Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.