Experienced Engineering Manager, Plaid
Security
$242.4-400k
1-5 days a week in office
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Job no longer available
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$242.4-400k
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And about a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs).
The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts. This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Zach was a Consultant at Bain and a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid ion 2012.
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