This role pays more than
82%
of similar roles. Most pay
$140,000–$206,041
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$215k
versus about
$173k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
Plaid currently has
35 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,800–$262,800
across 35 roles with salary data.
Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering joins a team dedicated to scaling data systems while maintaining high standards for accuracy and completeness. In this role, you will build and manage core SQL and Python data pipelines that power the company's data lake and warehouse. You will be responsible for designing golden datasets, ensuring data quality and performance, and creating well-documented infrastructure with defined SLAs. The work involves solving complex pipeline issues at scale, evolving analytics schemas from unstructured data, and managing low-level data infrastructure. You will utilize a technical stack including DBT, Airflow, Redshift, Atlan, Retool, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Databricks. This position focuses on the core problem of providing reliable, high-quality datasets to internal teams across engineering, product, and business units to enable faster, data-driven decision making for financial services.
What does a Data Engineer earn in California?
Median $199800 from 35 postings across 19 companies.