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Job Location drjobs

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Were hiring Staff Engineers across multiple teams to help us scale Plaids technical foundation and unlock new product capabilities. Youll lead high-impact projects that cut across teams deliver best-in-class systems and build infrastructure that makes it easier and safer for engineers to ship critical code.

As a Staff Engineer your impact will extend beyond any single codebase driving architecture for critical Tier-0 systems or owning the highest priority product engineering initiatives. Youll partner across product infra and security teams to shape durable abstractions resolve architectural debt and make systems more reliable and explainable. Youll work across domainslike identity resolution data pipelines access control and developer experienceowning decisions that improve quality and accelerate delivery at the company level.

Youll also raise the bar for engineering at Plaid. That means driving execution directly on ambitious projects mentoring other engineers leading technical reviews and modeling high-context low-friction collaboration.

Responsibilities

    • Think in systems. Youll lead design efforts across infra layersdata pipelines platform boundaries service interactionslooking past team lines to improve overall architecture.
    • Drive execution. Youll take on large technically complex projects that require coordination influence and deep attention to reliability security and maintainability. We expect our Staff engineers to stay close to the code using implementation as a tool to validate architecture unblock teams and drive progress on projects.
    • Level up the team. Youll mentor engineers review technical proposals and contribute to team norms and standards around architecture testing and observability.

Qualifications

    • 8 years of engineering experience leading projects spanning multiple teams.
    • Experience designing distributed systems scaling core infrastructure and navigating complexity to identify impact.
    • Exceptional product instincts and the ability to connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes.
    • Strong coding proficiency in a backend language (e.g. Go Java Python) and system-level debugging skills.
    • Track record of mentorship elevating technical quality across teams and influencing without authority.
    • High-trust low-ego communication: you write clearly listen deeply and lead with curiosity rather than certainty.
$202800 - $330000 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $202800/year to $330000/year in Zone 1. The target base salary will vary based on the jobs location.

Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - New York City and San Francisco Bay Area
Zone 2 - Los Angeles Seattle Washington D.C.
Zone 3 - Austin Boston Denver Houston Portland Sacramento San Diego
Zone 4 - Raleigh-Durham and all other US cities

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan including medical dental vision and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidates work experience and skillset and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

Required Experience:

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Employment Type

Full-Time

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