8 hours ago
Base Salary
$191k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead company-wide network changes, including service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations, using staged rollouts and rollback plans.
- Modernize and simplify Plaid’s cloud network to reduce operational risk.
- Build self-service tools in Go and Terraform for exposing, routing, and securing services.
- Strengthen network security and compliance boundaries.
- Debug complex network issues and improve alerts, dashboards, and guardrails.
- Participate in on-call, lead network incident response, and drive follow-up fixes.
Requirements
- Experience running production infrastructure at scale in infrastructure, SRE, or network engineering.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and load balancing.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, such as a CNI, service mesh, or ingress.
- Experience with cloud networking, ideally on AWS.
- Ability to write code in Go or Python.
- Track record of making large production changes safely with rollback plans.
- Preferred: production experience with Istio, Envoy, or Cilium.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Plaid is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and reasonable accommodations.
- The team is small and new, with meaningful influence over technical direction and a path toward Staff-level scope.
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.