# Product Security Engineer

**Company:** [Plaid](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/plaid)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Vulnerability Management, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Data Encryption, Key Management, Secret Management
**Posted:** 2026-04-08

> Builds and maintains production-grade security services, tools, and workflows like vulnerability management orchestration to secure developer and consumer products at scale. Partners with product engineers on secure development practices and incident response; requires 2+ years experience architecting secure, scalable systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build the secure engineering foundations that secure the future of digital finance.
- Develop maintainable and secure software to enhance Plaid's security posture and create paved roads for developers for easy and default integration of security controls.
- Design, develop, and maintain security-critical services and components.
- Develop internal tooling to automate vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation workflows within the CI/CD pipeline.
- Replace manual security gates with engineered solutions that allow product teams to ship faster and more securely.
- Communicate effectively with managers and team members regarding project deliverables and progress.
- Design and implement technical solutions that align with the evolving needs of the business.
- Proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities in products and services.
- Actively participate in incident response and security awareness initiatives.

## Qualifications
- 2+ years of professional experience building and scaling production services.
- Ability to architect software systems to meet security, privacy, usability, scalability and cost requirements.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building systems or services related to vulnerability management, data encryption, key management, secret management, user authentication, service authentication, authorization systems, and security policy enforcement.
- Experience designing distributed systems and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability.
- Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (**AWS**, **Kubernetes**, **Terraform**) and how to integrate security controls into them.
- A passion for creating tools and libraries that other engineers love to use.
- Passionate about educating others on security and privacy.

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