Senior Software Engineer - Product Security
At a glance
AI generatedTL;DR
Plaid’s Product Security team in San Francisco seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop security capabilities, focusing on managing vulnerabilities and automating workflows to reduce operational overhead. This role involves partnering with product and engineering teams to architect and build robust security controls for Plaid’s developer and consumer-facing products. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience building scalable production services and can meet stringent requirements for security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Familiarity with application security, vulnerability management, secure development lifecycle practices, penetration testing, and cloud security is highly beneficial as the team tackles complex security challenges at scale.
Skills
What you'll do
- Lead the design and development of security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities.
- Automate workflows to reduce manual effort in vulnerability management processes.
- Partner with product teams to architect secure systems for developer and consumer products.
- Build production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to enhance application security.
- Design and implement security controls to improve the overall security posture of products.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of professional experience building and scaling production services.
- Proven ability to architect software systems meeting security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost requirements.
- Expertise in designing and developing security capabilities for vulnerability management.
- Experience automating workflows to reduce manual effort in security processes.
- Strong partnership skills with product and engineering teams to integrate security controls.
Employer
About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
Plaid currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $204,156–$281,196 across 58 roles with salary data.
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