Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Plaid

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$190,800–$238,800 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$196,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $215k versus about $171k for comparable roles.

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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 65 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,800–$262,800 across 65 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Network Infrastructure

JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Network Infrastructure As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Network Infrastructure team, you will own large parts of the network that every product depends on. You will lead company-wide changes, such as service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations, while modernizing the cloud network to reduce risk. Your daily work involves building self-serve tools for product engineers, strengthening security and compliance boundaries, and debugging complex network issues. You will utilize Go, Python, and Terraform to manage infrastructure. The role requires deep knowledge of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP, alongside experience with Kubernetes networking, CNI, and AWS. You will solve technical problems by creating alerts, dashboards, and guardrails while participating in on-call rotations to lead incident response for critical network issues.

What you'll do

  • Lead company-wide network changes like service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations using staged rollouts.
  • Simplify and modernize the cloud network to reduce risk and improve operability.
  • Build self-serve tools in Go and Terraform for product engineers to manage services independently.
  • Establish and maintain strong security and compliance boundaries within the network.
  • Debug complex network issues and develop improved alerts, dashboards, and guardrails.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for network-related issues.
  • Drive follow-up fixes and technical improvements based on incident post-mortems.

What we're looking for

  • Experience running production infrastructure at scale in infrastructure, SRE, or network engineering.
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and load balancing.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, such as a CNI, service mesh, or ingress.
  • Experience with cloud networking, ideally on AWS.
  • Ability to write code in Go or Python.
  • Track record of making large production changes safely with a plan for rollback.
  • Production experience with Istio, Envoy, or Cilium (preferred).

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