Plaid
FinTech
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-ProductSecurity
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“Senior Software Engineer - Product Security at Plaid. Skills: Product security, Vulnerability management, Secure development. Lead security capabilities. Design security capabilities”
Industry & Context.
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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