Software Engineer (Security)

About this role

• The mission of Plaid’s Product Security Team is “Improve our customer’s trust by assuring secure development and delivery of products and services, minimizing risk to the ecosystem, and preventing security incidents
• The Product Security team is responsible for managing the security processes, policies and controls to secure Plaid’s developer and consumer facing products
• The product security team is focused on areas like Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing and Cloud Security
• We build the services and components that protect Plaid’s products. We move security “left” by engineering common libraries, modules, and workflows that make the secure path the easiest path for all Plaid engineers
• Plaid is looking for a Product Security Engineer who is a builder to join our Product Security team.Unlike traditional Product security roles, this position is for a software engineer who wants to solve security challenges at scale by building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks. Our goal is to make the “secure path” the only path for Plaid developers
• You will develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil
• You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes
• You will consult with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards
• You will help educate and support other engineering teams to improve security in their own products and services
• You will assist with Plaid’s incident response and security awareness programs
• You will collaborate with other security platform members and build necessary engineering solutions to meet their needs
• Build the secure engineering foundations that secure the future of digital finance
• Develop maintainable and secure software to enhance Plaid’s security posture and create paved roads for develope...