Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Network Infrastructure
Core
Own large parts of the network that every Plaid product depends on, planning and leading company-wide changes like service mesh upgrades and cloud network modernization.
Role type
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Network)
Builds
Self-serve tools for product engineers to expose, route, and secure services; improved network alerts, dashboards, and guardrails.
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Networking
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, load balancing, Kubernetes networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), cloud networking (AWS), Go, Python, production infrastructure at scale, safe large production changes with rollback plans
Preferred skills
Istio, Envoy, Cilium
Technologies
Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Istio, Envoy, Cilium
Responsibilities
Lead company-wide network changes using staged rollouts; simplify and modernize cloud network; build self-serve tools in Go and Terraform; set security and compliance boundaries; debug complex network issues and create alerts/dashboards; take part in on-call and lead incident response
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with path to Staff
