Plaid

FinTech

SeniorSoftwareEngineer-ProductSecurity

$204–281k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer - Product Security at Plaid. Skills: Product security, Vulnerability management, Secure development. Lead security capabilities. Design security capabilities”

Industry & Context.

FinTech
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience building production services, Architect and build software systems

Nice to Have

Experience building vulnerability management systems, Experience building data encryption systems, Experience building key management systems, Experience building secret management systems, Experience building user authentication systems, Experience building service authentication systems, Experience building authorization systems, Experience building security policy enforcement systems, Experience designing distributed systems, Experience designing microservices, Familiarity with AWS, Familiarity with Kubernetes, Familiarity with Terraform, Passion for creating tools, Passion for educating others

What You'll Do.

Lead security capabilities

Design security capabilities

Develop security capabilities

Manage vulnerabilities lifecycle

Own VM Orchestration service

Maintain VM Orchestration service

Build VM Orchestration service

Eliminate vulnerability classes

Partner with product teams

Partner with engineering teams

Architect security controls

Build security controls

Consult with product engineers

Ensure security standards

Educate engineering teams

Support engineering teams

Assist incident response

Assist security awareness programs

Collaborate with security platform members

Build engineering solutions

Build secure engineering foundations

Develop secure software

Enhance security posture

Integrate security controls

Design security-critical services

Develop security-critical services

Maintain security-critical services

Design security-critical components

Develop security-critical components

Maintain security-critical components

Develop internal tooling

Automate vulnerability detection

Automate dependency management

Automate remediation workflows

Replace manual security gates

Allow product teams ship faster

Communicate project deliverables

Communicate project progress

Design technical solutions

Implement technical solutions

Align solutions with business needs

Identify security vulnerabilities

Address security vulnerabilities

Participate incident response

Participate security awareness initiatives

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Engineering teams; Security platform members

Communication Scope

Communicate project deliverables; Communicate project progress

Full Job Description

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Product Security team is responsible for managing the security processes, policies and controls to secure Plaid’s developer and consumer facing products.The product security team is focused on areas like Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing and Cloud Security. We build the services and components that protect Plaid’s products. We move security "left" by engineering common libraries, modules, and workflows that make the secure path the easiest path for all Plaid engineers. Plaid is looking for a Product Security Engineer who is a builder to join our Product Security team. Unlike traditional Product security roles, this position is for a Senior software engineer who wants to solve security challenges at scale by designing and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks. Our goal is to make the "secure path" the only path for Plaid developers. The Role - You will lead, design and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil. - You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes.

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