Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Network Infrastructure

The role

You will own large parts of the network that every Plaid product depends on. You will plan and lead company-wide changes, build self-serve tools, and strengthen security and compliance boundaries.

What you will do

• Lead company-wide network changes, such as service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations, using staged rollouts.
• Simplify and modernize our cloud network, reducing risk and making it easier to operate.
• Build self-serve tools in Go and Terraform that let product engineers expose, route and secure their services independently.
• Help set stronger security and compliance boundaries in our network without slowing developers down.
• Debug complex network issues and turn what you learn into better alerts, dashboards and guardrails.
• Take part in on-call, lead incident response for network issues, and drive the follow-up fixes.

Required qualifications

• Experience running production infrastructure at scale, in infrastructure, SRE or network engineering
• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP and load balancing
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, such as a CNI, a service mesh or ingress
• Experience with cloud networking, ideally on AWS
• Ability to write code in Go or Python
• A track record of making large production changes safely, with a plan for rollback

Nice to have

• Production experience with Istio, Envoy or Cilium

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.