Sales Engineer - Public Sector is open at Plaid in San Francisco HQ (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $197K - $323K. Posted on Oct 22, 2026, and still on Plaid’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Serve as the lead technical advisor from discovery through solution design, evaluation, technical win, and post-sale handoff. - Partner with AEs to connect technical capabilities to business value across regulated industries. - Lead discovery, demos, architecture design, and RFIs/RFPs for payments, account verification, onboarding, income, and fraud workflows. - Run hands-on API pilots and POCs, defining success…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Plaid’s careers page.
Hiring at Plaid
Plaid has 142 open roles right now, 13 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Product. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $215K. See all its roles

