Staff Software Engineer - Online Storage
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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 Haves
- 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
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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