5-7 years of experience in production infrastructure, SRE, or network engineering.
Strong grasp of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and load balancing.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking components like CNI, service mesh, or ingress.
Familiarity with cloud networking, particularly on AWS.
Proficient in coding with Go or Python.
Proven ability to implement large-scale production changes safely with rollback plans.
Nice-to-Have: Experience with Istio, Envoy, or Cilium.
Responsibilities
Lead company-wide network changes, ensuring zero disruption to customers during service upgrades.
Modernize and simplify the cloud network to enhance operational efficiency and reduce risks.
Develop self-serve tools using Go and Terraform for product engineers to manage their services independently.
Establish robust security and compliance measures in the network while maintaining developer agility.
Diagnose complex network issues and improve monitoring tools based on findings.
Participate in on-call duties, lead incident responses for network issues, and implement follow-up fixes.
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
401(k) retirement plan.
Equity and commission opportunities based on position.
Flexible work environment with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
Full Job Description
As an Infrastructure Engineer on Network Infrastructure, you'll own large parts of the network that every Plaid product depends on. You'll plan and lead changes that touch the whole company, like upgrading our service mesh or modernizing older parts of our cloud network, and deliver them safely without disrupting customers. You'll build tools that let product engineers move faster on their own, help strengthen the security and compliance boundaries in our network, and dig into hard problems when something goes wrong. The team is small and new, so you'll have a real voice in its technical direction, with a clear path toward Staff-level scope.
Responsibilities
Lead company-wide network changes, such as service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations, using staged rollouts so customers see no disruption.
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.
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
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
About Plaid
Plaid is a financial services company based in New York City. The company builds a technology platform, which enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. Plaid focuses on enabling consumers and businesses to interact with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through financial technology applications. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey. In January 2020, Visa announced that it would acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. The acquisition was completed in January 2021.
