Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Advocating for adopting industry tools and practices at the right timeOwning core SQL and python data pipelines that power our data lake and data warehouse.
• Well-documented data with defined dataset quality, uptime, and usefulness.

Qualifications

• 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.
• You are excited to try out new technologies. You like to produce proof-of-concepts that balance technical advancement and user experience and adoption.
• You like to get deep in the weeds to manage, deploy, and improve low level data infrastructure.
• You are empathetic working with stakeholders. You listen to them, ask the right questions, and collaboratively come up with the best solutions for their needs while balancing infra and business needs.
• You are a champion for data privacy and integrity, and always act in the best interest of consumers.

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

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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.