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This role pays more than
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$173,137–$237,509
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$274k
versus about
$205k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
73 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,800–$262,800
across 73 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer - AI & Intelligent Tooling joins the AI & Intelligent Tooling team to establish technical foundations for an AI-first engineering environment. In this role, you will design, build, and operate internal tools and services that embed AI deeply into coding tools, internal systems, and the software development lifecycle. You will own systems end-to-end, focusing on integrating AI-powered workflows, improving platform reliability, and mentoring other engineers to enhance developer productivity. Key requirements include over eight years of professional software engineering experience, specifically building developer tooling, internal platforms, or infrastructure. You must have hands-on experience with AI systems, automation, or agentic workflows. The work involves solving the technical problem of improving engineering velocity by delegating lower-leverage tasks to AI agents across the organization.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
LLM
AI Engineering
Distributed Systems
Platform Engineering
Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code
Observability
Retrieval
Tool Calling
Model Routing
Guardrails
Production Systems