2 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Understand Plaid’s products and strategy to guide golden dataset selection, design, and data usage principles.
- Design datasets with strong attention to data quality and performance.
- Lead data engineering projects that drive collaboration across the company.
- Advocate for adopting appropriate industry tools and practices.
- Own core SQL and Python data pipelines powering Plaid’s data lake and data warehouse.
- Document data and define dataset quality, uptime, and usefulness standards.
- Manage, deploy, and improve low-level data infrastructure and support internal datasets and visualizations.
Requirements
- 4+ years of dedicated data engineering experience solving complex pipeline issues at scale.
- Experience building data models and pipelines on large datasets ranging from approximately 500 TB to petabytes.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with modern SQL orchestration tools such as DBT, Mode, and Airflow.
- Experience with performant warehouses and data lakes including Redshift, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Experience building and maintaining batch and real-time pipelines using technologies such as Spark and Kafka.
- Understanding of schema design and evolving analytics schemas on unstructured data.
- Ability to evaluate and prototype new technologies while balancing technical advancement with user experience and adoption.
- Experience managing, deploying, and improving low-level data infrastructure.
- Strong stakeholder collaboration skills and the ability to balance infrastructure and business needs.
- Commitment to data privacy and integrity.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefit plan.
- Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission, depending on the position offered.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Plaid
Plaid builds APIs and SDKs that let developers and financial institutions connect consumer bank and investment accounts, verify ownership, retrieve transactions, assess income/liabilities, fight fraud, and move money (e.g., ACH/transfer). It sells usage-based access to products like Link, Auth, Transactions, Identity, Income, Liabilities, and Payments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Plaid’s network spans 12,000+ financial institutions across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, with customers including Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment.