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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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$190,800–$262,800
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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 production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to automate vulnerability lifecycle workflows and eliminate entire vulnerability classes. Key responsibilities include building internal tooling for dependency management and remediation within CI/CD pipelines, replacing manual security gates with engineered solutions, and consulting with product engineers on security standards. Required skills include building and scaling production services, architecting distributed systems, and managing data encryption, key management, and secret management. Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform is also highly relevant.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.
Design, develop, and maintain production-grade security-critical services and components.
Build internal tooling to automate vulnerability detection and remediation workflows within the CI/CD pipeline.
Develop maintainable software and libraries to create "paved roads" for easy security integration.
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.
Consult with product engineers to ensure all services meet established security standards.
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).