Staff Software Engineer Online Storage
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo SoFi 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. Plaids network covers 12000 financial institutions across the US Canada UK and Europe. Founded in 2013 the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York Washington D.C. London and Amsterdam.
The Online Storage team is growing! We build the storage layer backing Plaids Core Data Models used by all of engineering. The goal is to evolve Plaids 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
- 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
Nice to Have
$186576 - $330000 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $202800/year to $330000/year in Zone 1 and $186576/year to $303600/year in Zone 2. 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.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race color national origin ethnicity religion or religious belief sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age military or veteran status disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability please let us know at emailprotected.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
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About Company
Plaid helps all companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services.
