Senior Software Engineer Data Infrastructure
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
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.
Making data driven decisions is key to Plaids culture. To support that we need to scale our data systems while maintaining correct and complete data. We provide tooling and guidance to teams across engineering product and business and help them explore our data quickly and safely to get the data insights they need which ultimately helps Plaid serve our customers more effectively. We build the data and machine learning infrastructure to enable Plaid engineers to prototype and iterate on products and features built on top of consumer-permissioned financial data.
Engineers on Data Infrastructure are domain experts in Data Warehouse Data Lakehouse Spark Workflow Orchestration and Streaming technologies. We scale our existing data pipelines in a performant and cost efficient way while creating the necessary abstractions to make developing on top of this platform extremely simple for other engineers at Plaid.
Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the long-term technical roadmap for data-driven and machine learning iteration at Plaid
- Leading key data infrastructure projects such as improving ML development golden paths implementing offline streaming solutions for data freshness building net new ETL pipeline infrastructure and evolving data warehouse or data lakehouse capabilities.
- Working with stakeholders in other teams and functions to define technical roadmaps for key backend systems and abstractions across Plaid.
- Debugging troubleshooting and reducing operational burden for our Data Platform.
- Growing the team via mentorship and leadership reviewing technical documents and code changes.
Qualifications
- 5 years of software engineering experience
- Extensive hands-on software engineering experience with a strong track record of delivering successful projects within the Data Infrastructure or Platform domain at similar or larger companies.
- Deep understanding of one of: ML Infrastructure systems including Feature Stores Training Infrastructure Serving Infrastructure and Model Monitoring OR Data Infrastructure systems including Data Warehouses Data Lakehouses Apache Spark Streaming Infrastructure Workflow Orchestration.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration communication and project management skills with proven ability to coordinate effectively.
- Proficiency in coding testing and system design ensuring reliable and scalable solutions.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities including experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers.
- Nice to have Experience with Databricks Airflow AWS EMR
$190800 - $286800 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $190800/year to $286800/year in Zone 1 in Zone 4 or encompassing all Zones. The target base salary will vary based on the jobs location.
Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - San Francisco / New York City / Seattle
Zone 2 - Los Angeles / Washington DC / Austin / Boston / Sacramento / San Diego
Zone 3 - Atlanta / Portland / Chicago / Philadelphia / Denver / Miami / Dallas / Raleigh
Zone 4 - All other US cities
The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission (if applicable) equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills experience and relevant education or training.
Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - San Francisco / New York City / Seattle
Zone 2 - Los Angeles / Washington DC / Austin / Boston / Sacramento / San Diego
Zone 3 - Atlanta / Portland / Chicago / Philadelphia / Denver / Miami / Dallas / Raleigh
Zone 4 - All other US cities
The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission (if applicable) equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills experience and relevant education or training.
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:
Senior IC
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.
