The Role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
The storage team is growing! We build the storage layer backing Plaid’s Core Data Models used by all of engineering. The goal is to improve Plaid’s storage systems to be more reliable, scalable, performant, and efficient.
As an engineer on the storage team, you will have the opportunity to design, deploy, and scale the core database clusters at Plaid including TiDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch. You will build tools and services to improve operation automations. You will enforce company-wide best practices for schema and query design. You will dive deep into query performance and infrastructure cost optimizations. You will wield terraform and cloud resources with confidence and certainty. You will partner with our stakeholder teams to understand their current storage and future storage requirements. You will improve the user experience that partner teams have interacting with the storage platform.
Responsibilities
- Deploying and managing large scale, multi-tenant database clusters including TiDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch
- Tuning complex queries and schemas to optimize performance
- Executing meticulous and reliability-focused migrations and upgrades
- Saving product engineers days and weeks of effort through investing in our storage platform’s capabilities
- Designing resilient and highly available distributed systems
- Fixing difficult issues in storage engines by understanding their inner workings, potentially diving into source code
- Handling ambiguity of challenging open world problems
Qualifications
- 4 + years of dedicated backend or platform experience
- 4+ years of specialization in storage technologies
- 8+ years of experience total
- Deployment and orchestration of DBs at scale
- Deep technical background in performance optimization for DBs (preferably SQL DBs)
- Background in storage platform design
- Infrastructure background (Terraform, AWS)
- Database background (TiDB, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Experience building custom CLI tooling and dynamic runbooks to automate your procedures
- [Nice to have] Interest in future developments and optimizations in data storage technology
- [Nice to have] Golang and Typescript proficiency
- [Nice to have] Background with security best practices
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
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The Company
What We Do
Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe.
At Plaid, we have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.
