# Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering at Plaid

- Company: Plaid
- What the company does: Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
- Company website: http://plaid.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco HQ
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $191K to $239K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plaid/ce3b3add-47d9-402d-a31d-16ffd1d0adb4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/plaid-senior-data-engineer-data-engineering/

## About the role

Understanding different aspects of the Plaid product and strategy to inform golden dataset choices, design and data usage principles. Have data quality and performance top of mind while designing datasetsLeading key data engineering projects that drive collaboration across the company.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years of dedicated data engineering experience, solving complex data pipelines issues at scale
- You’ve have experience building data models and data pipelines on top of large datasets (in the order of 500TB to petabytes)
- You value SQL as a flexible and extensible tool, and are comfortable with modern SQL data orchestration tools like DBT, Mode, and Airflow
- You have experience working with different performant warehouses and data lakes, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks
- You have experience building and maintaining batch and realtime pipelines using technologies like Spark, Kafka
- You appreciate the importance of schema design, and can evolve an analytics schema on top of unstructured data

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