Plaid
Senior Data Engineer
$191K–$239K
San Francisco HQ · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of dedicated data engineering experience.
About the job
Build and maintain scalable data systems, datasets, and visualizations that enable company-wide analytics and informed business decisions.
What you'll do
- Design golden datasets with attention to product strategy, data quality, and performance.
- Own SQL and Python pipelines powering the data lake and warehouse, with documented quality, uptime, and usefulness.
- Lead cross-company data engineering projects and promote appropriate industry tools and practices.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of dedicated data engineering experience solving complex pipeline issues at scale.
- Experience building data models and pipelines on large datasets (500TB to petabytes).
- Experience with modern SQL orchestration tools and performant warehouses or data lakes.
- Experience building and maintaining batch and real-time pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience with Spark and Kafka.
- Interest in prototyping new technologies while balancing technical advancement with user experience and adoption.
Pay
$190.8K – $238.8K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, Golang, DBT, Airflow, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks
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