# Engineering Manager - Security
**Company:** [Plaid](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/plaid)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Washington, DC
**Salary:** $216K-$367K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, CI/CD, Identity Management, Secrets Management, Ai Security, Platform Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-04-06
> Leads a team of security engineers building core security infrastructure including encryption, authN/authZ, CI/CD, and network security for Plaid's AI and platform ecosystem. Requires 8+ years software engineering experience with 6+ years in management and deep security expertise in AWS/K8s environments.
## Job Description
## 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 Plaid's core security capabilities across encryption, authN/authZ, CI/CD, data, and network security surfaces to secure Plaid’s 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 Plaid's 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 team's 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
- 8–14 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
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