Staff Software Engineer - Online Storage · Plaid

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:52:22 GMT
Engineering

Plaid · San Francisco · $207,600-$339,600 per year · hybrid

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We're dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. The Online Storage team is growing! We build the storage layer backing Plaid's Core Data Models used by all of engineering. The goal is to evolve Plaid's storage systems to be more reliable, scalable, performant, and efficient.

As an engineer on the storage team, you will have the opportunity to influence the strategy of the team and design, deploy, and scale the online storage platform at Plaid. You will build services and tools to improve operation automations. You will optimize query performance and infrastructure cost. You will wield terraform and cloud resources with confidence and certainty. You will partner with our stakeholder teams to understand their current storage and future storage requirements. You will improve the user experience that partner teams have interacting with the storage platform.

Responsibilities

Build and scale systems to support large datasets and high-throughput workloads with strong performance and reliability guarantees

Design and evolve resilient, distributed storage systems that operate reliably

Navigate ambiguity and drive clarity across complex storage and infrastructure challenges

Diagnose and resolve deeply technical issues within storage engines, including analyzing internal behavior and, when necessary, diving into source code

Lead careful, reliability-focused migrations that minimize risk and ensure seamless transitions for dependent systems

Build foundational storage capabilities that significantly reduce friction for product engineers, enabling teams to move faster and more confidently

Qualifications

Strong software engineering experience with deep focus on backend and/or platform systems

Deep expertise in storage technologies

Experience deploying and orchestrating databases at scale

Strong background in database performance optimization, preferably with SQL databases

Experience designing and evolving storage platforms

Infrastructure experience with tools such as Terraform and AWS

Hands-on experience with databases such as TiDB, MySQL, or MongoDB

Experience building internal tooling and automation to improve reliability and developer efficiency

Nice to Have

Demonstrated curiosity about evolving storage technologies and performance optimization techniques

Production experience with Go and TypeScript

Experience applying security best practices in storage or infrastructure systems