Engineering Manager, Plaid
Security Operations
$199.8-340.2k
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Open for applications
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$199.8-340.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Effective people management skills, including goal-setting, prioritization, cross-team coordination, and continuous feedback
- Strong knowledge of cloud and container infrastructure best practices, protection of corporate assets, and threat detection techniques
- Broad experience across security operations topics that affect infrastructure and corporate environments, including identity and access, network, vulnerability, and change management
- Familiarity with security frameworks and risk-based security programs
- Demonstrable mentorship results to help ensure continued skill and capability growth across the SecOps team
- Background working in security engineering orgs, protecting AWS and Kubernetes environments
- Security control automation and implementation across AWS and Kubernetes environments
What the job involves
- The mission of Plaid's Security Operations team is to secure environments for our employees, development, and services
- We achieve this by implementing controls that layer security into the groundwork of our engineering infrastructure, streamlining implementations, and measuring effectiveness
- We also monitor and respond to issues that occur in those environments, address events, and reduce risk exposure
- In this role, you will be responsible for directly impacting our organization's security posture, enabling security across the foundations on which we do business
- You will collaborate closely with engineering and security teams and other stakeholders to ensure Plaid’s infrastructure is ready to mitigate the dynamic threats the company faces
- You will direct the overall strategy of the Security Operations team, providing guidance and prioritization to major initiatives that improve our long-term defensive capabilities
- Owning the direction of cloud and corporate security within a world-class Security team
- Leading an effective team to deliver on increasingly impactful and ambitious objectives
- Building comprehensive security controls across cloud, container, and corporate environments
- Applying previous experience to provide guidance, mentorship, and growth for team members
- Following changes in the state of security as an industry, and growing your own knowledge of offensive threats and defensive techniques and best practices
- Coordinating holistic identity and access management practices
- Oversee and conduct formal incident investigations and lead advanced incident handling scenarios including internal and external data breaches and abnormal activity
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer 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 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. 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. Despite its strong position, it has not been immune to the difficult global economic situtation and was forced to restructure at the end of 2022, laying off some of its workforce. However it is still experiencing growth and is well-positioned to weather the current economic uncertainty.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Lots of opportunities to grow within your space, the teams in Plaid Europe are small which means you are getting exposure to areas you may not in..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $734.3m
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend (gym on us)
- We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner to keep you well-fed and healthy (when working from the office)
- From medical, life, dental and pension schemes, we’re here to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing
- We want everyone to feel ownership over their work - literally, which is why we offer equity to full-time Plaids
- Every Plaid is in control of their career development with our learning stipends, tools, and trainings
- We give Plaids the freedom and flexibility to choose where they work - whether that is in a Plaid office, at home in any supported location, or a mix of both!
- Two weeks of synchronous, company-wide vacation
- We want to make sure you have time to meet your personal needs with unlimited PTO
Company values
- Impact - We are building a company in order to create outcomes for consumers, and for our customers. The work we do is focused on creating extraordinary results for both. We choose what we work on and measure ourselves by the lasting impact created.
- Grow, together - We constantly strive to learn and improve — as individuals, as a team, and as a company. We foster a culture of feedback, delivered frequently and empathetically. We are each responsible for our own growth, and for the growth of those around us.
- Embrace openness and positivity - These characteristics play an important role in how we interact with each other, and how we represent ourselves to the world. We are intentional with our openness (or clear when we cannot be), and we approach our relationships and challenges with optimism.
- Think rigorously; act with urgency - We work diligently to make sound decisions — but we also recognise that speed matters. We move with urgency to bring our work to the world.
- Make it better - Each of us is an owner of Plaid. We are committed to continuous improvement and leaving things better than we found them. It is not perfection we seek, but valuable, pragmatic improvements to our products, our company, and our craft.
- Consumer outcomes via customer love - Plaid exists to improve outcomes for consumers. The primary way we achieve this is through the love and loyalty of our customers. We work with and through our customers, always with the best interest of the consumer in mind
- Invent tomorrow - We think big and take responsibility for creating the financial ecosystem we want to exist. We don’t wait to see what the future will bring; we create it ourselves
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Zach Perret
(CEO)He was a Consultant at Bain and previously a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid
William Hockey
(Board Director)He was previously an associate at Bain and has since moved on from Plaid to become Co-CEO at Column
Diversity & Inclusion at Plaid
Andrea Cruz (DEIB Program Manager)
- We are promoting equity by continuing to build employee programs to attract and keep talent growing and thriving at Plaid.
- We foster inclusion by offering annual DEIB education.
- We are building belonging with our four Plaid Community Groups: Plaids of Colour, Plaids of Faith, PLGBTQ+ and Women+.
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