Plaid

Security Engineer - Platform Security

Plaid
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1 day ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$189k - $243k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Review AI systems and integrations for security risks before and after deployment.
  • Design and deploy guardrails, sandboxes, and other controls for AI agents.
  • Build or implement systems to track and manage AI identities and their access.
  • Detect and mitigate prompt injection across Plaid’s AI surface area.
  • Conduct AI-focused security reviews and establish security standards for other teams.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience securing AI technologies through deploying guardrails or sandboxes, managing AI identities, detecting or mitigating prompt injection, conducting AI security reviews, or implementing AI security tooling.
  • Preferred experience at a frontier AI lab or on a security team defending production AI systems at scale.
  • Preferred experience with Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Platform Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations, or Detection and Response teams.
  • Preferred software security review, SDLC, vulnerability discovery, or offensive security experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are provided.
  • Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission depending on the position offered.
  • Pay and benefits are subject to change according to applicable compensation or benefit plans.

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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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