Senior Infrastructure Engineer Network Infrastructure
Plaid is a financial data network and fintech infrastructure company that helps people securely connect financial accounts to digital financial services.
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About Plaid Inc.
Plaid provides developer infrastructure and financial tools for account connectivity, financial data access, bank payments, identity verification, AML monitoring, credit and underwriting, and fraud prevention. Its network supports thousands of fintech companies and more than 12,000 financial institutions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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About the Role
You will own key network infrastructure, lead safe company-wide changes, and modernize cloud networking. You will build self-service tools in Go and Terraform, strengthen network security and compliance boundaries, resolve complex incidents, improve operational guardrails, and participate in on-call incident response.
Requirements
- Experience running production infrastructure at scale in infrastructure, SRE, or network engineering
- Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and load balancing
- Hands-on Kubernetes networking experience, including CNI, service mesh, or ingress
- Cloud networking experience, ideally AWS
- Ability to write code in Go or Python
- Track record of safely making large production changes with rollback plans
Responsibilities
- Lead company-wide network changes through staged rollouts
- Simplify and modernize cloud networking
- Build self-service tools in Go and Terraform for service exposure, routing, and security
- Strengthen security and compliance boundaries in the network
- Debug complex network issues and improve alerts, dashboards, and guardrails
- Participate in on-call, lead network incident response, and drive follow-up fixes
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)