Product Security Engineer - Applications
San Francisco / New York / Remote
Plaid Inc.
Plaid helps companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services.The mission of Plaid's Product Security Team is “Improve our customer’s trust by assuring secure development and delivery of products and services, minimizing risk to the ecosystem, and preventing security incidents.” We achieve this by ensuring security measures are available by default to developers, implementing security controls in the CI/CD pipeline, measuring effectiveness of these controls and adjusting them accordingly. We heavily focus on security reviews, threat modeling, building secure architecture, runtime application protection, and reducing risk to the platform.
As a Security Engineer on the Product Security team, you will work with the Engineering team to build secure products, ensuring security controls are available by default and educating stakeholders on best practices and standards. You will build and implement runtime protection on Plaid’s live products by implementing a WAF, automated security scanners, and runtime application protections. You will also participate in security reviews, threat modeling and building secure architecture standards for AWS. You will detect vulnerabilities and triage them with appropriate owners, use vulnerability remediation tools and practices, and follow compliance standards and frameworks.
Major projects may include: building/installing application security testing tools, refining a vulnerability management program, deploying and testing interceptors/wrappers for runtime protection, and coordinating with other security and engineering teams to standardize security policies and standards.
What excites you
- Secure architecture and coding practices, that may include design reviews, threat modeling, code auditing, and security assessments on products/applications developed in-house or externally.
- Build automation to detect and respond to security vulnerabilities identified in the CI/CD pipeline.
- Expertise in application security, security engineering,, security protocols, cryptography, and/or system or network security.
- Identifying security flaws in code, security design anti-patterns, and configuration problems in applications with an emphasis on how attackers might exploit them.
- Threat hunting through log analysis, systems monitoring, data flow patterns, etc.
- Deploying and securing cloud services (preferably in an AWS environment).
- Running a bug bounty program.
- Evaluating technologies for improving security defenses.
- Conducting application penetration testing using tools such as: Metasploit, Kali Linux, Burp Suite, etc.
- Passionate about advocating for and implementing secure SDLC.
- Deploy and use AST (including IAST & RASP) tools to identify security vulnerabilities and remediate them early in the development lifecycle.
- Communication in a friendly, supportive manner with software engineers or other stakeholders, helping to not only identify security issues, but also mentor and advocate on novel solutions.
What excites us
- Background working in a product or application security team, protecting scalable enterprise/cloud applications.
- History of implementing product security best practices across SaaS services and applications.
- Familiarity with working on security incidents/events and to investigate, remediate and respond to potential threats.
- Run PoC's for potential new security controls/tools and determine their effectiveness.
- Experience with creation of WAF rules & signatures to mitigate threats and implement best practices.
- Experience with containers (Docker) and Container Orchestration Systems (Kubernetes/ECS), and specifically container security.
- Experience with deploying & managing API security tools / integrations.
- Experience with Terraform and development of Terraform reusable modules.
- Experience working with AWS resources (i.e. ECS, VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda).
- Experience using scripting to improve security controls and investigations.
- Experience with the risks associated with financial technology companies.
- Excellent understanding of OWASP Risks, Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Mechanisms.
- Experience with creation and implementation of custom alerting dashboards in SIEM for investigations.
- Familiarity with security frameworks and risk-based security programs.
- Experience working on crypto primitives, authentication protocols, and authorization standards (Eg: SSL/TLS, SAML, OAuth, JWT tokens), and implementations within most major cloud providers, preferably AWS.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: APIs Application security Audits Automation AWS Burp Suite C CI/CD Cloud Compliance Crypto Cryptography Docker Exploit IAM Kali Kubernetes Lambda Linux Log analysis Metasploit Monitoring Network security OWASP Pentesting Product security S3 SaaS SAML Scripting SDLC Security assessment SIEM Terraform TLS Vulnerabilities Vulnerability management
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