Senior Software Engineer - Product Security
Plaid is a financial data network and fintech infrastructure company that helps people securely connect financial accounts to digital financial services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Plaid Inc.
Plaid provides developer infrastructure and financial tools for account connectivity, financial data access, bank payments, identity verification, AML monitoring, credit and underwriting, and fraud prevention. Its network supports thousands of fintech companies and more than 12,000 financial institutions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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About the Role
Design and build secure production services, libraries, frameworks, vulnerability orchestration, detection and remediation workflows, and security controls for Plaid products.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience building and scaling production services
- Ability to architect and build systems meeting security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost requirements
- Experience with vulnerability management, encryption, key management, secret management, authentication, authorization, or security policy enforcement
- Experience designing distributed systems and microservices
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Passion for creating tools and libraries
- Passion for educating others about security and privacy
Responsibilities
- Lead, design, and develop security capabilities
- Own and maintain the vulnerability management orchestration service
- Partner with product and engineering teams to build security controls
- Consult with product engineers on security standards
- Educate and support engineering teams
- Develop secure software and developer security integrations
- Design and maintain security-critical services and components
- Automate vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation workflows within CI/CD
- Replace manual security gates with engineered solutions
- Participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)