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Plaid

Senior Security Analyst, Security Risk Management

$124K–$194K

Remote United States +3 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026

Location
Remote United States
Raleigh Office
San Francisco HQ
New York City Office

About the job

Runs Plaid’s security risk management program by assessing and tracking technical risks, supporting treatment decisions, reporting to leadership and the board, and integrating security risk into enterprise risk management.

What you'll do

  • Conduct scenario-based security risk assessments and document treatment decisions with engineering SMEs and risk owners.
  • Prepare quarterly security risk reporting and executive and board materials; align security risks with enterprise risk management.
  • Mature the risk program and automate intake, analysis, register maintenance, and reporting using AI; support FedRAMP 20x risk decisions.

What they ask for

  • Experience assessing technical risks using NIST SP 800-30, FAIR, or a comparable method, with technical depth to engage engineers on architecture and controls.
  • Experience building or maturing a security risk program and integrating security risk into enterprise risk management.
  • Experience preparing quarterly risk reporting and security risk content for executive and board decks.
  • Working knowledge of NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and SOC 2; has built AI skills, agents, or automations that materially increase risk-program throughput.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on FedRAMP 20x experience, including Security Decision Record reporting for rules and Key Security Indicators (SDR-CSO-FRR, SDR-CSX-KSI).

Pay

$124K – $194K USD base salary

Tools

NIST SP 800-30, FAIR, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP 20x

AI focus

Build and share AI skills and automations for intake triage, first-draft risk analyses, register hygiene, and report generation.

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First seen Oct 13, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)