Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Network Infrastructure

• Lead company-wide network changes, such as service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations, using staged rollouts so customers see no disruption.

• Simplify and modernize our cloud network, reducing risk and making it easier to operate.

• Build self-serve tools in Go and Terraform that let product engineers expose, route and secure their services independently.

• Help set stronger security and compliance boundaries in our network without slowing developers down.

• Debug complex network issues and turn what you learn into better alerts, dashboards and guardrails.

• Take part in on-call, lead incident response for network issues, and drive the follow-up fixes.

• Experience running production infrastructure at scale, in infrastructure, SRE or network engineering

• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP and load balancing

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, such as a CNI, a service mesh or ingress

• Experience with cloud networking, ideally on AWS

• Ability to write code in Go or Python

• A track record of making large production changes safely, with a plan for rollback

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• Production experience with Istio, Envoy or Cilium

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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.