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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
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The Senior Software Engineer - Product Security joins the Product Security team to manage security processes, policies, and controls for developer and consumer facing products. This role focuses on Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing, and Cloud Security. You will lead the design and development of security capabilities, specifically owning the VM Orchestration service and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to automate vulnerability detection and remediation workflows within CI/CD pipelines. You will partner with engineering teams to architect security controls, replace manual gates with engineered solutions, and provide security consultations. Required skills include building and scaling production services and architecting software systems for security, privacy, and scalability. Relevant experience includes distributed systems, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, data encryption, and secret management.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Design, develop, and maintain production-grade security-critical services and components.
Build internal tooling to automate vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation workflows within CI/CD pipelines.
Develop maintainable libraries and modules that make secure integration the default path for developers.
Lead the design and development of capabilities to manage the vulnerability lifecycle and reduce manual toil.
Architect and build security controls in partnership with product and engineering teams to meet security standards.
Replace manual security gates with engineered solutions to enable faster and more secure product shipping.
Participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives.
Proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities across Plaid's products and services.
What we're looking for
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.
Experience building systems or services related to vulnerability management, data encryption, key management, secret management, user authentication, service authentication, authorization systems, and security policy enforcement (preferred).
Experience designing distributed systems and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability (preferred).
Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and how to integrate security controls into them (preferred).
A passion for creating tools and libraries that other engineers love to use (preferred).
Passionate about educating others on security and privacy (preferred).