Plaid · 5 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$180K/yr - $270K/yr
4+ years expPlaid is a company dedicated to empowering financial transformation by building tools and experiences for developers. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build robust datasets, enabling business leaders to make informed decisions and collaborate across teams to drive data strategy.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Understanding different aspects of the Plaid product and strategy to inform golden dataset choices, design and data usage principles
Have data quality and performance top of mind while designing datasetsLeading key data engineering projects that drive collaboration across the company
Advocating for adopting industry tools and practices at the right timeOwning core SQL and python data pipelines that power our data lake and data warehouse
Well-documented data with defined dataset quality, uptime, and usefulness
Qualification
Required
4+ years of dedicated data engineering experience, solving complex data pipelines issues at scale
You've have experience building data models and data pipelines on top of large datasets (in the order of 500TB to petabytes)
You value SQL as a flexible and extensible tool, and are comfortable with modern SQL data orchestration tools like DBT, Mode, and Airflow
You have experience working with different performant warehouses and data lakes; Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks
You have experience building and maintaining batch and realtime pipelines using technologies like Spark, Kafka
You appreciate the importance of schema design, and can evolve an analytics schema on top of unstructured data
You are excited to try out new technologies. You like to produce proof-of-concepts that balance technical advancement and user experience and adoption
You like to get deep in the weeds to manage, deploy, and improve low level data infrastructure
You are empathetic working with stakeholders. You listen to them, ask the right questions, and collaboratively come up with the best solutions for their needs while balancing infra and business needs
You are a champion for data privacy and integrity, and always act in the best interest of consumers
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (41)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalIndex Ventures,Kleiner Perkins
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
Recent News
2026-01-25
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