Engineering Manager, Product Foundations
Plaid
Software Engineering, Other Engineering, Product
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 1, 2025
The Product Foundations area owns Plaid’s critical core infrastructure, which powers every product across the company.
Update Pipeline is a critical team within Product Foundations. Think of it as Plaid’s Plaid – we own the scalable and resilient backend infrastructure that powers all user-present pathways, we orchestrate data ingestion pipelines, and we maintain core data models used across Plaid.
We abstract and optimize these platform components to accelerate product launches, secure data storage of Plaid’s most sensitive data, and maintain the critical infrastructure that supports all of Plaid’s applications.
We are an engineering‑driven, high‑performing group of world‑class ICs based in San Francisco, collaborating in‑office at least three days a week.
Responsibilities
- Setting long-term team strategy in partnership with the technical lead, other managers, and product counterparts in the organization.
- Driving technical and product outcomes: identifying new opportunities for the roadmap, diving deep into project details to ensure effective project execution.
- Guiding a team of mid to senior-level engineers, providing coaching and career development, and collaborating with senior managers, PMs, and TLs across Plaid to ensure our platform enables fast, secure product innovation.
- Collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to translate product asks into foundational requirements.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in the industry (with significant leadership experience as a software engineer)
- 1+ years of engineering management experience.
- Strong understanding of building scalable architecture to support production systems.
- Track record of building and growing high-performing engineering teams.