We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo SoFi several of the Fortune 500 and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaids network covers 12000 financial institutions across the US Canada UK and Europe. Founded in 2013 the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York Washington D.C. London and Amsterdam.
We build the security foundation that every engineer at Plaid depends on. The Security Engineering team is responsible for building scaling and evolving the core security infrastructure that enables Plaids product engineering teams to ship securely and at speed. We own the secure paved roads across encryption authN/authZ CI/CD data and network security surfaces abstracting away security complexity so developers can build at velocity with confidence. Our mission is simple: make the secure path the easy path for every engineer at Plaid.
As the Engineering Manager for Security Engineering you will lead a team of security engineers building and operating the foundational capabilities that underpin secure development across Plaid. You will partner closely with the CISO and cross-functional engineering leaders to define and drive the roadmap for our platform capabilities while ensuring our paved roads are reliable well-adopted and continuously maturing. Youre a technically credible leader who earns the trust of your engineers by going deep and earns the trust of the business by translating complex security tradeoffs into pragmatic risk-based decisions that align with Plaids product goals.
Responsibilities:
- Lead mentor and grow a team of security engineers fostering a high-performance collaborative and psychologically safe team culture
Own the technical roadmap and strategic direction for Plaids core security capabilities across encryption authN/authZ CI/CD data and network security surfaces to secure Plaids AI and MCP ecosystem (internal and external MCP integrations).
Partner with product and platform engineering teams to deeply understand their needs and deliver self-service security infrastructure that scales across teams at varying levels of security maturity.
Partner with Data Foundation and AI teams to build secure paved roads for agentic identities and workflows (AI agents MCP clients service identities)
Drive measurable improvement in secure-by-default adoption across Plaids engineering organization leading with influence rather than authority
Make pragmatic risk-based security decisions and tradeoffs that are consistent with product roadmaps and business objectives
Represent the teams work and security posture clearly to Staff-level leaders including the CISO CTO and COO
Actively build team stability and strong team dynamics playing a significant role in hiring onboarding growing and retaining security engineering talent
Qualifications:
814 years of overall software engineering experience with 6 years of that in engineering management roles
Strong technical background in software engineering with the ability to understand evaluate and guide work on auth systems encryption identity/access services and related security domains in an AWS and K8s environment
Experience managing engineers in a security platform or infrastructure context
Experience designing and securing AI/ML/Agentic platforms (tool-calling MCPs and service identities)
Familiarity with AI security and governance risks and control designs that preserve developer velocity.
Proven track record building scalable platform capabilities and paved roads used broadly across a product focused engineering organization
Ability to architect security capabilities and controls with developer experience principles in mind
Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills operating effectively as both a technical advisor and a delivery partner to product engineering teams
High-empathy communication skills with the ability to represent technical work to senior leadership
Internal customer focus with the ability to drive security maturity gains through influence rather than authority
Experience at a fintech or high-technology organization adjacent to payments or financial services
Hands-on experience building user and service authN/authZ capabilities encryption/secrets management services or internal identity management capabilities at scale at an AWS and K8s environment
$216000 - $367200 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $216000 year to $367200/year in Zone 1. The target base salary will vary based on the jobs location.
Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - San Francisco / New York City / Seattle
Zone 2 - Los Angeles / Washington DC / Austin / Boston / Sacramento / San Diego
Zone 3 - Atlanta / Portland / Chicago / Philadelphia / Denver / Miami / Dallas / Raleigh
Zone 4 - All other US cities
The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission (if applicable) equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills experience and relevant education or training.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race color national origin ethnicity religion or religious belief sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age military or veteran status disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability please let us know at emailprotected.
Please review our Candidate Privacy Noticehere. Required Experience:
Manager
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people ...
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo SoFi several of the Fortune 500 and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaids network covers 12000 financial institutions across the US Canada UK and Europe. Founded in 2013 the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York Washington D.C. London and Amsterdam.
We build the security foundation that every engineer at Plaid depends on. The Security Engineering team is responsible for building scaling and evolving the core security infrastructure that enables Plaids product engineering teams to ship securely and at speed. We own the secure paved roads across encryption authN/authZ CI/CD data and network security surfaces abstracting away security complexity so developers can build at velocity with confidence. Our mission is simple: make the secure path the easy path for every engineer at Plaid.
As the Engineering Manager for Security Engineering you will lead a team of security engineers building and operating the foundational capabilities that underpin secure development across Plaid. You will partner closely with the CISO and cross-functional engineering leaders to define and drive the roadmap for our platform capabilities while ensuring our paved roads are reliable well-adopted and continuously maturing. Youre a technically credible leader who earns the trust of your engineers by going deep and earns the trust of the business by translating complex security tradeoffs into pragmatic risk-based decisions that align with Plaids product goals.
Responsibilities:
- Lead mentor and grow a team of security engineers fostering a high-performance collaborative and psychologically safe team culture
Own the technical roadmap and strategic direction for Plaids core security capabilities across encryption authN/authZ CI/CD data and network security surfaces to secure Plaids AI and MCP ecosystem (internal and external MCP integrations).
Partner with product and platform engineering teams to deeply understand their needs and deliver self-service security infrastructure that scales across teams at varying levels of security maturity.
Partner with Data Foundation and AI teams to build secure paved roads for agentic identities and workflows (AI agents MCP clients service identities)
Drive measurable improvement in secure-by-default adoption across Plaids engineering organization leading with influence rather than authority
Make pragmatic risk-based security decisions and tradeoffs that are consistent with product roadmaps and business objectives
Represent the teams work and security posture clearly to Staff-level leaders including the CISO CTO and COO
Actively build team stability and strong team dynamics playing a significant role in hiring onboarding growing and retaining security engineering talent
Qualifications:
814 years of overall software engineering experience with 6 years of that in engineering management roles
Strong technical background in software engineering with the ability to understand evaluate and guide work on auth systems encryption identity/access services and related security domains in an AWS and K8s environment
Experience managing engineers in a security platform or infrastructure context
Experience designing and securing AI/ML/Agentic platforms (tool-calling MCPs and service identities)
Familiarity with AI security and governance risks and control designs that preserve developer velocity.
Proven track record building scalable platform capabilities and paved roads used broadly across a product focused engineering organization
Ability to architect security capabilities and controls with developer experience principles in mind
Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills operating effectively as both a technical advisor and a delivery partner to product engineering teams
High-empathy communication skills with the ability to represent technical work to senior leadership
Internal customer focus with the ability to drive security maturity gains through influence rather than authority
Experience at a fintech or high-technology organization adjacent to payments or financial services
Hands-on experience building user and service authN/authZ capabilities encryption/secrets management services or internal identity management capabilities at scale at an AWS and K8s environment
$216000 - $367200 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $216000 year to $367200/year in Zone 1. The target base salary will vary based on the jobs location.
Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - San Francisco / New York City / Seattle
Zone 2 - Los Angeles / Washington DC / Austin / Boston / Sacramento / San Diego
Zone 3 - Atlanta / Portland / Chicago / Philadelphia / Denver / Miami / Dallas / Raleigh
Zone 4 - All other US cities
The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission (if applicable) equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills experience and relevant education or training.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race color national origin ethnicity religion or religious belief sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age military or veteran status disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability please let us know at emailprotected.
Please review our Candidate Privacy Noticehere. Required Experience:
Manager
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