Experienced Software Engineer - Developer Efficiency

Job Description

• You will be the tech lead for the work-stream responsible for Continuous Deployments (CD), which is used by Plaid’s application engineering teams to deploy new changes to production every day. • Discover, prioritize, and execute projects to improve the reliability of Plaid’s product offerings by extending the coverage of testing and canarying mechanisms we currently have in CD. • Up-level the technical rigor of other engineers on the team, and conduct thoughtful code reviews. • Own SLO definition, goal-setting, and OKR planning. • Improve the capabilities of our internal developer platform. • Lead with operational maturity, and an SRE-like focus on reliability and automation. • Dive into any part of the entire Plaid codebase to inform technical decision making across teams, and with engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects. • Experience with k8s and Continuous Deployment models. • Past experience in a technical lead position within a Platform organization. • Ability to advocate for a technical direction, with strong decision making skills. • Coding, testing and system design skills. • Customer-focus (for our internal engineers).

Benefits

• Working on projects at the intersection of Reliability, Engineering Velocity, Security, and AWS Cost Efficiency. • Collaborating extensively with senior engineering leadership, and across teams. • Operating with autonomy while managing ambiguity.