Plaid · 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer - Security Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $371K/yr
8+ years expPlaid is a company dedicated to empowering financial transformation by building tools for developers. The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for enhancing product security, architecting complex security systems, and contributing to the broader security industry.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Write high-quality, scalable code to enhance product security or support security functions
Lead the technical design of complex, cross-functional security systems. You will determine how we solve problems like "universal service-to-service authentication" or "global data encryption" at scale
Act as a security subject matter expert for other engineering teams. We embed within engineering teams to build and accelerate security features within our products and frameworks
Own your systems in production. We run an on-call rotation for the services we build, ensuring they meet the same high availability standards as our core products
Contribute to the broader security industry. Whether it's open-sourcing our internal tools or contributing to major open-source security projects, we want you to help move the industry forward
Qualification
Required
Strong Software Engineering skills: You have 8+ years of experience building distributed systems, backend services, or infrastructure. You care about code quality, testing, and reliability
You are 'security-curious': You understand the fundamentals of security (encryption, auth protocols like OIDC/OAuth, network security) and want to dive deeper. You ask 'how can we design this so it can't be misused?' rather than just 'is this bug fixed?'
You think at a system-level: You can visualize complex dependencies and design solutions that work across dozens of microservices
You are a Partner: You can communicate complex security requirements to product managers and engineers with empathy and clarity
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
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