Software Engineer (Security Engineering)

Join Plaid, a leading financial technology company, as a Software Engineer in the Security Engineering team. In this role, you will develop and maintain Plaid's security infrastructure and services, ensuring the protection of sensitive consumer data. You will collaborate with product engineers, educate other engineering teams on security best practices, and actively participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives. Enjoy a vibrant work environment, competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and various lifestyle perks.

While these experience and characteristics are not prerequisites, candidates who possess them would be well-suited for the role:

We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

USD 188,748 - 242,676

About Plaid

• Develop and maintain Plaid’s security infrastructure and services, including Key Management System and Secure Token Service.
• Experience building scalable systems and services

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards and assist with incident response.
• Design and implement technical solutions that align with the evolving needs of the business, focusing on security capabilities.
• Experience building systems or services related to data encryption, key management, secret management, certificate management, transport security, user authentication, device authentication, service authentication, permission management, authorization systems, and security policy enforcement

Requirements

• Passionate about educating others on security and privacy

Experience with data platforms and data infrastructure

• Experience architecting software systems to meet security, privacy, usability, scalability and cost requirements
• Experience with threat modeling, security architecture reviews, or incident response

Preferred

• Experience with securing critical and sensitive information assets