Staff Software Engineer - Online Storage

Plaid

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Seattle, US Posted 21 days ago $207,600–$306,600 / year

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TL;DR

As a Staff Software Engineer on Plaid’s Online Storage team in Seattle, you will play a pivotal role in evolving the company’s storage systems to be more reliable and scalable. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing and deploying resilient distributed storage solutions, optimizing query performance and infrastructure costs, and building internal tools to enhance developer efficiency. You will work with Terraform and AWS cloud resources, as well as databases like TiDB, MySQL, or MongoDB. Ideal candidates have deep expertise in backend systems, database performance optimization, and experience with Go and TypeScript. This role involves navigating complex technical challenges and partnering closely with stakeholder teams to ensure seamless transitions during system migrations, all while contributing to the broader goal of improving Plaid’s core data models used across engineering.

Skills

Terraform AWS SQL TiDB MySQL MongoDB Go TypeScript CI/CD Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Build and scale systems to support large datasets with high performance.
Design resilient, distributed storage systems for reliable operation.
Diagnose and resolve technical issues within storage engines and source code.
Lead migrations that minimize risk and ensure seamless transitions.
Build foundational storage capabilities to reduce friction for product engineers.

What we're looking for

Strong software engineering experience with backend and platform systems.
Deep expertise in storage technologies, including database performance optimization.
Experience deploying and orchestrating databases at scale using Terraform and AWS.
Hands-on experience with databases like TiDB, MySQL, or MongoDB.
Proven ability to design and evolve resilient distributed storage platforms.

Market check

Salary context

This $207,600–$306,600 range sits above 95% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$143,000–$260,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$167,625–$217,250

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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 127 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $186,000–$262,800 across 127 roles with salary data.

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