Senior Product Security Engineer: Build Secure Platforms

Plaid; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer who will design and build production-grade security services and libraries to make the secure path the default for Plaid engineers. You will own vulnerability management, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with product teams to embed robust security controls across Plaid’s services.

The role emphasizes building at scale, improving CI/CD security, and educating teams on security best practices, withPlaid’s commitment to diverse,

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead, design and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows.
• Own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and reduce vulnerability classes.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to architect and build security controls.
• Consult with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards.
• Educate and support other engineering teams to improve security in their products.

Skills

Security engineering

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer who will design and build production-grade security services and libraries to make the secure path the default for Plaid engineers. You will own vulnerability management, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with product teams to embed robust security controls across Plaid’s services.

The role emphasizes building at scale, improving CI/CD security, and educating teams on security best practices, withPlaid’s commitment to diverse,