3 months ago
Base Salary
$204k - $281k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead, design, and develop security capabilities for vulnerability lifecycle management and workflow automation.
- Own, maintain, and enhance Plaid’s vulnerability management orchestration service.
- Design and build security controls, services, libraries, frameworks, and internal tooling for product and engineering teams.
- Automate vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation workflows within development pipelines.
- Consult with product engineers and help teams meet security standards through secure-by-default integrations.
- Identify and address security vulnerabilities in products and services.
- Participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives.
- Collaborate with security platform members and communicate project deliverables and progress to managers and team members.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience building and scaling production services.
- Ability to architect and build software systems that meet security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost requirements.
- Preferred experience with vulnerability management, data encryption, key management, secret management, authentication, authorization, and security policy enforcement.
- Preferred experience designing distributed systems and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability.
- Preferred familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and integrating security controls into cloud infrastructure.
- Interest in creating tools and libraries for other engineers and educating others on security and privacy.
Benefits
- Plaid provides medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission, depending on the position offered.
- Pay and benefits vary based on factors including role scope, experience, skill set, and location.
Tech Stack
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About Plaid
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.