资深软件工程师 - 数据治理
Staff Software Engineer - Data Governance
我们相信，人们与财务的互动方式将在未来几年发生巨大改善。我们致力于通过构建数千名开发者用来创建自己产品的工具和体验来推动这一变革。Plaid 为数以百万计的人们依赖的工具提供支持，帮助他们过上更健康的财务生活。我们与 Venmo、SoFi、多家财富 500 强公司以及许多大型银行合作，让人们能够轻松地将财务账户连接到他们想要使用的应用和服务。Plaid 的网络覆盖美国、加拿大、英国和欧洲的 12,000 家金融机构。公司成立于 2013 年，总部位于旧金山，并在纽约、西雅图、华盛顿特区、罗利、伦敦和阿姆斯特丹设有办事处。
数据治理团队确保 Plaid 负责任地处理消费者和客户数据，并能证明这一点。我们的使命是将 Plaid 的隐私承诺和监管义务嵌入系统本身，而不是政策文档中：我们构建平台和控制机制，管理数据在 Plaid 中的流动方式——数据存储的位置、谁可以使用它、用于什么目的以及使用时长。这包括根据请求可验证地删除消费者数据，强制执行数据使用限制，使下游系统只能以允许的方式使用数据，以及目录和分类功能，让 Plaid 知道自己持有哪些数据以及其敏感程度。我们在 Plaid 整体数据足迹的规模上运作，正确性和可审计性对我们来说与吞吐量一样重要。
作为数据治理团队的高级软件工程师，你将确定 Plaid 在大规模下如何实施数据治理的技术方向。你将领导分布式后端系统的设计，可靠地在数十个服务中删除、限制和追踪数据，做出影响整个公司的架构决策。你将从模糊的隐私和监管要求出发，推动跨多个季度的项目，直至交付可审计的基础架构——分解复杂问题，协调多个工程团队达成一致计划，并在高风险部分亲自参与代码。你将成为一个倍增器：通过设计评审和指导提升技术标准，并与法律、隐私、安全和产品工程团队深入合作，将义务转化为其他团队可以建立的控制措施。
职责
- 主导技术架构
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.
The Data Governance team makes sure Plaid handles consumer and customer data responsibly — and can prove it. Our mission is to enforce Plaid's privacy commitments and regulatory obligations in the systems themselves rather than in policy documents: we build the platform and controls that govern how data flows through Plaid — where it lives, who can use it, for what purpose, and for how long. That includes verifiable deletion of consumer data on request, enforcement of data-use restrictions so downstream systems can only use data in permitted ways, and the cataloging and classification that let Plaid know what data it holds and how sensitive it is. We operate at the scale of Plaid's entire data footprint, and correctness and auditability matter to us as much as throughput.
As a Staff Software Engineer on Data Governance, you will set the technical direction for how Plaid enforces data governance at scale. You'll lead the design of distributed backend systems that reliably delete, restrict, and track data across dozens of services, making architectural decisions whose blast radius spans the whole company. You'll drive multi-quarter initiatives from ambiguous privacy and regulatory requirements through to shipped, auditable infrastructure — decomposing the hard problems, aligning multiple engineering teams behind a plan, and staying hands-on in the code for the highest-risk pieces. You'll be a force multiplier: raising the technical bar through design reviews and mentorship, and partnering deeply with Legal, Privacy, Security, and product-engineering teams to turn obligations into controls the rest of the company can build on.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture for Plaid's data-governance platform
- Lead the design and delivery of multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives.
- Drive design reviews and set engineering standards for reliability, correctness, and auditability across the team's systems.
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and product-engineering teams to shape requirements and unblock adoption of governance controls company-wide.
- Mentor engineers and level up the team's technical judgment; act as a technical point of contact for governance concerns raised by other teams.
Qualifications
Must-haves:
- Extensive experience (typically 8+ years) building and operating backend distributed systems at scale, in a language like Go, Java, or similar.
- A track record of leading the design of complex systems and driving cross-team technical initiatives to completion.
- Strong fundamentals in data stores, consistency, and reliability, with the judgment to reason about correctness and failure modes.
- Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and align multiple stakeholders behind them.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including working effectively with non-engineering partners (legal, privacy, compliance).
Nice-to-have:
- Prior experience with data privacy, governance, or compliance systems (e.g., GDPR/CCPA deletion, data-use/consent enforcement, cataloging/classification, or auditing).
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!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.
Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here https://plaid.com/legal/#candidate-privacy-notice.
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.