Staff Data Platform Engineer

Plaid; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid is seeking an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer to scale data systems and support data-driven decision making across teams. You will work on data warehouse/lakehouse platforms, streaming, and orchestration, building scalable solutions for Plaid’s growing data needs in a Seattle office environment.

The role requires 6+ years of experience, strong Python/Spark skills, and proven leadership in mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Delivery of data infrastructure projects in data platform domain.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and project management.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards the long-term technical roadmap for data-driven and ML iteration at Plaid.
• Lead key data infrastructure projects (offline streaming, ETL, data warehouse/lakehouse evolution).
• Coordinate with stakeholders to define roadmaps for backend systems and abstractions.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and reduce operational burden for Data Platform.

Skills

6+ years experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

System design

Communication

Project management

Tools

Databricks

Airflow

AWS EMR

Python

Apache Spark

Job description

Plaid is seeking an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer to scale data systems and support data-driven decision making across teams. You will work on data warehouse/lakehouse platforms, streaming, and orchestration, building scalable solutions for Plaid’s growing data needs in a Seattle office environment.

The role requires 6+ years of experience, strong Python/Spark skills, and proven leadership in mentoring engineers.