Experienced Infrastructure Engineer, Plaid
$154.1-330k
Salary applicable to Zone 1 - New York City and San Francisco Bay Area, other locations may vary
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
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Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$154.1-330k
Salary applicable to Zone 1 - New York City and San Francisco Bay Area, other locations may vary
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure engineering or devops
- Kubernetes (or equivalent technology) cluster admin & operations
- Cloud Networking: DNS/VPCs/subnets/gateways/peering/ACLs
- Experience with Go, Bash and/or Python
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Postgresql, Mongodb, and Ansible
- Experience in managing production environments and databases
- Ability to juggle day-to-day tasks and long term projects
What the job involves
- Plaid’s infrastructure handles millions of requests per day, and we pride ourselves on maintaining a robust API
- As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will build and scale the foundations for production engineering, developer operations, and deployments
- You will also work hand-in-hand with the product teams to help ship new products and features as well as facilitating operational excellence throughout the product's lifecycle
- You will be responsible for keeping the ship sailing smoothly, and your creations will serve as the bedrock for products serving millions of users
- Own and drive technical direction for key infrastructure domains, working closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on technical excellence, providing thoughtful feedback, growing ICs through stretch opportunities, and modelling high-craft engineering
- Drive alignment and clarity across teams, facilitating collaborative technical decision-making and shepherding complex initiatives through to delivery
- Design and evolve core infrastructure systems to support Plaid’s scaling needs, including resilient multi-cluster deployments and observability tooling
- Improve build and release systems by leading enhancements to our self-serve deployment platform, empowering service teams to move quickly and safely
- Balance hands-on execution with system-wide oversight, contributing to roadmap validation, architectural design, and deep-dive reviews while ensuring the team moves with velocity and quality
- Providing automated solutions allowing you and your colleagues to focus on new and innovative solutions to problems at scale
- Building efficient engineering frameworks and processes for quickly iterating and launching products into production
- Data driven decision frameworks to ensure efficient solutions with maximum impact
- Insight across the entire stack allows you to have input wherever needed or wherever you think you can make the most impact
- Collaboration and Mentoring: Work closely with junior infrastructure team members, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to foster their professional growth and skills development
Our take
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.
Plaid has integrated with 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. 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. Despite its strong position, it has not been immune to the difficult global economic situtation and was forced to restructure at the end of 2022, laying off some of its workforce. However it is still experiencing growth and is well-positioned to weather the current economic uncertainty.
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
- 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
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(CEO)He was a Consultant at Bain and previously a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid
William Hockey
(Board Director)He was previously an associate at Bain and has since moved on from Plaid to become Co-CEO at Column
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