Plaid
Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure
$208K–$274K
San Francisco HQ +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 6, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Seattle Office - Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and scale Plaid’s data infrastructure, pipelines, and platform abstractions to support reliable data insights and machine-learning development.
What you'll do
- Lead data infrastructure projects, including ETL, streaming, and data warehouse or lakehouse capabilities.
- Shape technical roadmaps with stakeholders and reduce operational burden through debugging and troubleshooting.
- Mentor engineers and review technical documents and code changes.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience delivering successful projects in Data Infrastructure or Platform domains at similar or larger companies.
- Deep understanding of data infrastructure systems, including warehouses, lakehouses, Spark, streaming infrastructure, or workflow orchestration.
- Experience with Python; proficiency in coding, testing, and system design, plus cross-functional collaboration and demonstrated mentoring or leadership.
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks.
- Experience with Airflow or AWS EMR.
Pay
$207.6K – $273.6K USD base salary
Tools
Data Warehouse, Data Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Streaming Infrastructure, Workflow Orchestration, Python, Databricks, Airflow
AI focus
Contribute to the technical roadmap for machine-learning iteration and improve ML development pathways.
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