Plaid

Software Engineer - Security Engineering

Plaid
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17 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level
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Base Salary

$189k - $243k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop maintainable and secure software to enhance Plaid’s infrastructure and protect sensitive data.
  • Own, maintain, and build security infrastructure and services such as the Key Management System and Secure Token Service.
  • Design and implement technical solutions meeting security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost requirements.
  • Consult with product engineers to ensure services meet security standards.
  • Educate and support engineering teams in improving security for their products and services.
  • Participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives.
  • Collaborate with security platform members and communicate project deliverables and progress.

Requirements

  • Experience building scalable systems and services.
  • Experience architecting software systems to meet security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost requirements.
  • Experience with data encryption, key management, secret management, certificate management, transport security, authentication, permission management, authorization systems, or security policy enforcement is preferred.
  • Experience securing critical and sensitive information assets is preferred.
  • Experience with data platforms and data infrastructure is preferred.
  • Experience with threat modeling, security architecture reviews, or incident response is preferred.
  • Passion for educating others about security and privacy is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
  • Plaid is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

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About Plaid

5,001-10,000 employees

Plaid builds APIs and SDKs that let developers and financial institutions connect consumer bank and investment accounts, verify ownership, retrieve transactions, assess income/liabilities, fight fraud, and move money (e.g., ACH/transfer). It sells usage-based access to products like Link, Auth, Transactions, Identity, Income, Liabilities, and Payments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Plaid’s network spans 12,000+ financial institutions across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, with customers including Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment.

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