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We build the security foundation that every engineer at Plaid depends on. The Security Engineering team is responsible for building, scaling, and evolving the core security infrastructure that enables Plaid's product engineering teams to ship securely and at speed. We own the secure paved roads across encryption, authN/authZ, CI/CD, data, and network security surfaces, abstracting away security complexity so developers can build at velocity with confidence. Our mission is simple: make the secure path the easy path for every engineer at Plaid.
Job Responsibility:
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers
Own the technical roadmap and strategic direction for Plaid's core security capabilities
Partner with product and platform engineering teams
Partner with Data Foundation and AI teams to build secure paved roads
Drive measurable improvement in secure-by-default adoption
Make pragmatic, risk-based security decisions
Represent the team's work and security posture clearly to Staff-level leaders
Actively build team stability and strong team dynamics
Requirements:
8–14 years of overall software engineering experience
~6+ years of that in engineering management roles
Strong technical background in software engineering
Experience managing engineers in a security, platform, or infrastructure context
Experience designing and securing AI/ML/Agentic platforms (tool-calling, MCPs, and service identities)
Familiarity with AI security and governance risks and control designs
Proven track record building scalable platform capabilities and paved roads used broadly across a product focused engineering organization
Ability to architect security capabilities and controls with developer experience principles in mind
Experience at a fintech or high-technology organization adjacent to payments or financial services
Hands-on experience building user and service authN/authZ capabilities, encryption/secrets management services, or internal identity management capabilities at scale at an AWS and K8s environment