Plaid
Engineering Manager - Supply & Traffic
$216K–$291K
New York City Office · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 22, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience, including time as a Staff-level engineer before transitioning into management; 1+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads Plaid’s Supply & Traffic engineering team, managing how data enters Plaid’s network and how traffic to financial institutions is optimized.
What you'll do
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 7 engineers, including an ML engineer.
- Set the team’s long-term strategy and roadmap in partnership with technical, product, and cross-functional leaders.
- Drive traffic optimization, automation, and AI/ML approaches for discovering and retrieving data.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of industry experience, including time as a Staff-level engineer before transitioning into management.
- 1+ years of engineering management experience.
- Deep experience designing scalable, reliable architectures for real-world products at scale.
- Experience building or leading teams that ship ML- or AI-driven systems in production.
Pay
$216K – $291K USD base salary
AI focus
Drive automation and AI/ML-powered approaches to discovering new data (Constellation) and deciding how and when Plaid retrieves it.
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