Staff Software Engineer - Product Foundations
$202.8k/y-$330k/y
Plaida day ago
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Summary
Plaid is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Product Foundations to join their team in San Francisco, CA. The role involves designing and building backend data systems to enhance user interactions with financial data at scale.
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing backend data systems that allow querying of users' complete financial lives. You will lead high-impact projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and establish best practices for data quality and performance. Your work will directly impact millions of end-users and major financial institutions.
About You
Required:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including backend system design and data infrastructure.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
- Experience working with data platforms (e.g., Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, DBT, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with data modeling and lifecycle challenges.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional partners.
Preferred:
- Experience with graph databases or graph-based data modeling.
- Exposure to ML infrastructure or support systems (e.g., feature stores, batch/stream data).
- Understanding of data privacy, data access restrictions, or legal compliance in data systems.
- Prior experience mentoring or leading technical direction for other engineers.
- Experience defining the roadmap of an ambiguous technical area.
Benefits
- Target base salary between $202,800 and $330,000 per year.
- Comprehensive benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
- Additional compensation in the form of equity and/or commission.
Plaid
Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey.
San Francisco, CA