Experienced Software Engineer - Online Storage

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re 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. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 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 storage team is growing! We build the storage layer backing Plaid’s Core Data Models used by all of engineering. The goal is to improve Plaid’s 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 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

• Large dataset and high throughput scalability
• Designing resilient, distributed systems
• Handling ambiguity of challenging open world problems
• Fixing difficult issues in storage engines by understanding their inner workings, potentially diving into source code
• Meticulous and reliability-focused migrations
• Saving product engineers days and weeks of effort through our storage foundation’s capabilities

Qualifications

• 4 + years of dedicated backend or platform experience
• 4+ years of specialization in storage technologies
• 8+ years of experience total
• Deployment and orchestration of DBs at scale
• Deep technical background in performance optimization for DBs (preferably SQL DBs)
• Background in storage platform design
• Infrastructure background (Terraform, AWS)
• Database background (TiDB, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience building custom CLI tooling and dynamic runbooks to automate your procedures
• [Nice to have] Interest in future developments and optimizations in data storage technology
• [Nice to have] Golang and Typescript proficiency
• [Nice to have] Background with security best practices

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 doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

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