Plaid
Senior Software Engineer - Product Security
$204K–$281K
Seattle Office +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Location
- Seattle Office
San Francisco HQ
New York City Office - Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience building and scaling production services.
About the job
Build and operate product-security services, tooling, and controls that automate vulnerability management and make secure development the default across Plaid.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain security-critical services, including the Vulnerability Management Orchestration service, and automate vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to design security controls, improve secure development workflows, and advise on security standards.
- Support incident response and security awareness initiatives; educate engineering teams on product security.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience building and scaling production services.
- Ability to architect and build software systems that meet security, privacy, usability, scalability, and cost requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience in vulnerability management or related security systems, distributed systems and microservices, or integrating security controls into cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform; interest in building tools and libraries for engineers and educating others about security and privacy.
Pay
$204,156 – $281,196 (USD; base salary)
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
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