Staff Software Engineer - Online Storage

Plaid

Actively hiring
Seattle Posted 24 days ago $207,600–$306,600 / year
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TL;DR

Join the Online Storage team at Plaid as a senior engineer and help evolve the company’s core data storage systems to be more reliable, scalable, and efficient. You will design, deploy, and scale online storage platforms, build services and tools for operational automations, optimize query performance and infrastructure costs, and partner with stakeholder teams to understand their storage needs. Utilizing Terraform and AWS cloud resources, you will work on TiDB, MySQL, or MongoDB databases while improving the user experience of interacting with the storage platform. Ideal candidates have deep expertise in backend systems, database deployment at scale, and performance optimization, along with hands-on experience building internal tooling for reliability and developer efficiency.

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 that operate reliably at scale.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues within storage engines.
  • Lead migrations of storage platforms to minimize risk for dependent systems.
  • Improve user experience by reducing friction for product engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Strong software engineering experience with backend and platform systems.
  • Deep expertise in storage technologies and database performance optimization.
  • Experience deploying and orchestrating databases at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS infrastructure tools.
  • Proficiency in designing and evolving resilient, distributed storage platforms.
  • Experience building internal tooling to improve reliability and developer efficiency.

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 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $204,156–$281,196 across 58 roles with salary data.

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