Engineering Manager (Security)

Join Plaid as an Engineering Manager for Security Engineering. You will lead a team of security engineers, build and operate foundational security capabilities, and partner with cross-functional engineering leaders to drive the roadmap for our platform capabilities. You will also foster a high-performance team culture, make pragmatic security decisions, and represent the team's work to senior leadership.

• Lead and mentor a team of security engineers, fostering a high-performance, collaborative, and psychologically safe team culture.
• Own the technical roadmap and strategic direction for Plaid's core security capabilities across encryption, authN/authZ, CI/CD, data, and network security surfaces.
• Partner with product and platform engineering teams to deeply understand their needs, and deliver self-service security infrastructure that scales across teams at varying levels of security maturity.
• 8–14 years of overall software engineering experience, with ~6+ years of that in engineering management roles
• Familiarity with AI security and governance risks and control designs that preserve developer velocity
• Strong technical background in software engineering, with the ability to understand, evaluate, and guide work on auth systems, encryption, identity/access services, and related security domains in an AWS and K8s environment
• Experience managing engineers in a security, platform, or infrastructure context
• Experience designing and securing AI/ML/Agentic platforms (tool-calling, MCPs, and service identities)
• Ability to architect security capabilities and controls with developer experience principles in mind
• Internal customer focus, with the ability to drive security maturity gains through influence rather than authority
• Hands-on experience building user and service authN/authZ capabilities, encryption/secrets management services, or internal identity management capabilities at scale at an AWS and K8s environment
• Proven track record building scalable platform capabilities and paved roads used broadly across a product focused engineering organization
• Experience at a fintech or high-technology organization adjacent to payments or financial services
• High-empathy communication skills, with the ability to represent technical work to senior leadership
• Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills, operating effectively as both a technical advisor and a delivery partner to product engineering teams
• We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description