GRC Engineering Lead: Continuous Compliance & Automation

Plaid Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a GRC Engineering leader to architect and scale an engineered compliance platform. You will codify controls, automate evidence collection, and build real-time risk dashboards across SOC 2, ISO, and NIST mappings.

You will drive continuous compliance, embed checks into the SDLC, and push AI-assisted workflows. Collaboration across security, infra, and engineering is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL with building API/webhook integrations.
• Experience owning an internal tool or service end to end with real users.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native security controls.
• Proficiency with dashboarding tools to turn data into KPIs.
• Experience building and operating continuous controls monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Architect GRC's Engineering Foundation and codified data sources.
• Build Continuous Controls Monitoring across cloud and internal systems.
• Turn data into risk signals with dashboards and KPIs.
• Drive data-informed risk assessments and mitigations.
• Automate recurring operational toil and workflows.
• Shift compliance left with policy-as-code in CI/CD and AI workflows.
• Future-proof for continuous compliance with machine-readable evidence.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs & Webhooks

Internal tools

AWS

Data visualization

Tools

Terraform

OPA/Rego

Sentinel

Mode (Dashboarding)

Job description

Plaid is seeking a GRC Engineering leader to architect and scale an engineered compliance platform. You will codify controls, automate evidence collection, and build real-time risk dashboards across SOC 2, ISO, and NIST mappings.

You will drive continuous compliance, embed checks into the SDLC, and push AI-assisted workflows. Collaboration across security, infra, and engineering is essential.