Senior Software Engineer (Product Security)

Join Plaid's Product Security team as a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you will design and build production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to enhance the security of Plaid's products. You will lead the development of security capabilities, partner with product and engineering teams to architect security controls, and educate other engineering teams on security best practices. This position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive health benefits, and a vibrant work environment.

• Lead, design, and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil.
• Own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to architect and build security controls to make our products even more secure.
• Ability to architect and build software systems to meet security, privacy, usability, scalability and cost requirements
• 5 + years of professional experience building and scaling production services
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and how to integrate security controls into them
• We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description
• A passion for creating tools and libraries that other engineers love to use.
• Experience designing distributed systems and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability
• Passionate about educating others on security and privacy
• Experience building systems or services related to vulnerability management, data encryption, key management, secret management, user authentication, service authentication, authorization systems, and security policy enforcement
• We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!