Infrastructure Engineer

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will build and scale the foundations for production engineering, developer operations, and deployments. You will also work hand-in-hand with the product teams to help ship new products and features as well as facilitating operational excellence throughout the product's lifecycle. You will be responsible for keeping the ship sailing smoothly, and your creations will serve as the bedrock for products serving millions of users. As a Tech Lead on the Infrastructure team, you will: Own and drive technical direction for key infrastructure domains, working closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners. Mentor engineers and raise the bar on technical excellence, providing thoughtful feedback, growing ICs through stretch opportunities, and modelling high-craft engineering. Drive alignment and clarity across teams, facilitating collaborative technical decision-making and shepherding complex initiatives through to delivery. Design and evolve core infrastructure systems to support Plaid’s scaling needs, including resilient multi-cluster deployments and observability tooling. Improve build and release systems by leading enhancements to our self-serve deployment platform, empowering service teams to move quickly and safely. Balance hands-on execution with system-wide oversight, contributing to roadmap validation, architectural design, and deep-dive reviews while ensuring the team moves with velocity and quality. Responsibilities Providing automated solutions allowing you and your colleagues to focus on new and innovative solutions to problems at scale. Building efficient engineering frameworks and processes for quickly iterating and launching products into production. Data driven decision frameworks to ensure efficient solutions with maximum impact. Insight across the entire stack allows you to have input wherever needed or wherever you think you can make the most impact. Collaboration and Mentoring: Work closely with junior infrastructure team members, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to foster their professional growth and skills development.