Plaid

Experienced Engineering Manager, Security

Job Description

Security owns and maintains core security primitives that enable products and services to be launched quickly and safely. We believe security should be enabled by default across all of Plaid.

Security Engineering is a software engineering team within Security that focuses on developing scalable, highly available, industry-leading security services and infrastructure for Plaid. This team is responsible for secure data storage and loss prevention, key management, identity platform, internal authentication systems (employee, device, and service authentication), internal permission management, and access control. The team also owns several critical services such as Key Management System, Secure Token Service, Sensitive Information Store, Zero Trust Access Gateway, Internal Permissions Dashboard, Internal Authorization Service, and the Vulnerability Management platform.

We are looking for a dynamic engineering leader to support building secure products and infrastructure for the next phase of growth and innovation for Plaid. This role plays a critical cross-functional role across engineering in the execution and delivery of security primitives, services, and infrastructure to support the technology initiatives driving the growth of the business.


Responsibilities
  • Leading a skilled software engineering team to deliver on increasingly impactful and ambitious objectives across many security domains, including: Zero Trust, Data Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Loss Prevention, Vulnerability Management, and Supply Chain Security and Integrity.
  • End-to-end ownership of comprehensive security controls that scale across Plaid’s microservices and data platforms and enable efficient and secure product delivery.
  • Developing a strategy to support Plaid’s business objectives through customer-centric engineering solutions.
  • Advise on, contribute to, and drive the security vision and strategy at Plaid.
  • Applying previous experience to provide guidance, mentorship, and growth for team members.
  • Following changes in the state of security as an industry, and maintaining up to date knowledge of offensive threats, defensive techniques, and best practices.

    • Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience in software development, preferably with a focus on security. This role requires significant technical depth and breadth.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage engineering teams effectively, with a focus on technical excellence.
  • Effective people management skills, including strategy and goal setting, prioritization, cross-team coordination, and continuous feedback.
  • Broad knowledge of offensive threats, defensive techniques, and security best practices.
  • Proven ability to both influence and get things done within your team as well as cross-functionally across the organization.

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