Senior Software Engineer - Product Security

The role

This Senior Software Engineer will design and build production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to solve security challenges at scale. You will develop security capabilities to manage vulnerability lifecycles and automate workflows.

What you will do

• Build secure engineering foundations.
• Develop maintainable and secure software to enhance security posture.
• Design, develop, and maintain security-critical services and components.
• Develop internal tooling to automate vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation workflows.
• Replace manual security gates with engineered solutions.
• Communicate with managers and team members regarding project deliverables and progress.
• Design and implement technical solutions that align with business needs.
• Proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities.
• Participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives.

Required qualifications

• 5 + years of professional experience building and scaling production services
• Ability to architect and build software systems to meet security, privacy, usability, scalability and cost requirements

Nice to have

• Experience building systems or services related to vulnerability management, data encryption, key management, secret management, user authentication, service authentication, authorization systems, and
• Experience designing distributed systems and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and how to integrate security controls into them
• A passion for creating tools and libraries that other engineers love to use
• Passionate about educating others on security and privacy

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid builds tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create products. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.