Plaid

Head of Department

• Form and set up Plaid’s Detection and Response team from scratch, defining its culture and operational standards.
• Lead the day-to-day operations for incident response and evaluate the overall effectiveness of the detection and response program.
• Manage and mentor a technical team responsible for detection infrastructure, AI-driven triage, and investigation tooling.
• Oversee Fraud Operations and Red Team activities to ensure a proactive and comprehensive security posture.
• Partner with senior leadership (CISO, CTO, COO) to communicate security risks and maturity gains achieved through influence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Define and track metrics to evaluate and demonstrate the effectiveness of the D&R program.

Head of Detection and Response

Accounting Manager

• Lead AP and T&E operations, ensuring expense accuracy and timely accruals
• Oversee a timely, accurate and efficient month-end close process.
• Maintain strong internal controls and accounting policies.
• Streamline accounting processes; ensure compliance with GAAP, including complex areas such as accruals, leases, and investments.
• Mentor, coach, and grow a high-performing accounting team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop talent to meet evolving business needs.
• Own Procure-to-Pay and T&E systems; evaluate, implement, and optimize systems to drive automation and efficiency.
• Leverage AI to improve close accuracy — surfacing issues promptly, deepening flux and variance analysis, and building out checklists and controls documentation that raises the bar
• Partner closely with Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance, Legal, Engineering, and other teams to support strategic initiatives, operational scaling, and high-quality financial insights.
• Provide accounting guidance to business partners to inform decision-making.

Backend Engineer

• Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code.
• Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team.
• Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

AI Engineer

• Design, build, and operate internal tools and platform capabilities for high-leverage non-engineering workflows
• Translate ambiguous internal pain points into simple, durable software products
• Define platform constraints for auth, runtime, storage, deployment, and maintenance so internal tools are safe for broader use
• Build with strong product judgment, balancing flexibility with clear boundaries between what belongs in Retool, Scaffold, and a new AI-native internal tool surface
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and internal stakeholder teams to ship systems that are reliable in production
• Own systems end-to-end, including implementation, rollout, support, and iterative improvement

Senior Software Engineer – AI Tooling

Security Analyst

• You will own Plaid’s Security Contracts workstream end-to-end—the DRI for how security contract reviews get done, how fast they move, and how the program improves over time.
• You will review security provisions in customer MSAs, DPAs, and security addenda, identify unacceptable clauses, and provide Legal and GTM with the actionable security feedback they need to move deals forward.
• You will build the playbooks, processes, and program infrastructure that make the Security Contracts workstream scalable — so the team moves faster on every deal that follows.
• You will use pattern analysis and data to proactively reduce deal friction over time, own program metrics and reporting, and operate as an AI power user to maximize throughput.
• You will also support broader security trust enablement activities — responding to customer security questionnaires and joining external audit calls with customers and data partners — with the same rigor and responsiveness you bring to the contracts workstream.
• Lead Security Contract Reviews: Review security provisions in customer MSAs, DPAs, security addenda, and security exhibits — identifying unacceptable clauses, forming a clear security position, and providing Legal with actionable feedback they can take directly into negotiations. Your positions will give Legal and GTM a consistent, defensible security voice at the table and directly reduce deal cycle times.
• Shape the Security Contract Review Strategy: Design and own the end-to-end program infrastructure — intake process, tiered SLAs, security positions runbooks, and handoff protocols with Legal and GTM. Your work will transform security reviews from an ad-hoc bottleneck into a predictable, scalable function that the business can rely on.
• Drive Strategic Intelligence: Track security contract asks across deals, identify recurring patterns, and determine whether they reflect a gap in Plaid's program or a non-standard customer request. For identified gaps, assess feasibility and propose recommendations to leadership. For existing capabilities, codify them in the standard security addendum to eliminate future negotiation cycles.
• Accelerate Deals: Join customer and data partner calls as Plaid's security subject matter expert — comfortable navigating the formality and pace of traditional financial institutions, building trust through patience and clear, collaborative communication. Your involvement will shorten security contract review cycles from weeks to days and directly unblock revenue.
• Own Program Health: Define the KPIs, build the dashboards, and deliver regular reporting on program health to Security and GTM leadership. Your reporting will give leadership clear visibility into deal friction, SLA adherence, and where the program needs to improve.
• Scale Through AI and Tooling: Build and scale AI-assisted workflows for security assurance, pattern analysis, and reporting — and share what works across the team. Your approach will set the standard for how the Security GRC team leverages AI to increase productivity.
• Support Security Trust Activities: Respond to customer security questionnaires and support external audit calls with customers and data partners — serving as Plaid's security subject matter expert across all customer-facing assurance activities. Your involvement ensures Plaid presents a consistent, credible security posture across every customer touchpoint, not just at the contract stage.

Senior Security Analyst, Customer Assurance

• Manage U.S. and EU indirect tax compliance to ensure accurate and timely filing of tax returns and payments
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations for sales & use tax and other non-income tax accounts to ensure accuracy
• Assist on indirect tax audits and reviews through data collection and research support.
• Provide indirect tax support, including customer invoice and contract inquiries, exemption certificate reviews, and tax determination in accordance with applicable tax regulations.
• Maintain Plaid’s ASC 450 positions and reserves, including the documentation and calculations
• Monitor tax changes and legislative tax updates. Perform research and analysis, and apply tax laws to support technical positions related to the Company’s business transactions and clearly communicate and document findings
• Support the tax technology roadmap, including assistance with testing, ensuring our tax engine is configured properly, and developing reporting requirements
• Partner with cross functional teams throughout the company to understand the tax impact of business operations and ensure tax needs are identified, considered and communicated.
• Collaborate on the development of internal controls and tax automation processes to streamline tax return preparation and ensure efficient operations.

Senior Indirect Tax Associate

Research Analyst

• Lead investigations into complex fraud cases across identities, accounts, devices, and transaction surfaces
• Provide support to day-to-day fraud operations including SEVs and alert triage
• Reconstruct attacker sequences and hypothesize actor intent and tooling
• Distill patterns from noisy signals into clear narratives and actionable insights
• Bridge investigation outcomes to product and model improvements
• Operate across Plaid's fraud tooling — dashboards, alerting systems, network signals, and analytics platforms — to detect and validate anomalies
• Stress-test existing capabilities, identify systemic gaps, and define new detection primitives
• Proactively identify gaps in internal fraud tooling and automation, driving enhancements to improve efficiency and scale
• Collaborate with Data Science, ML/AI, and Product teams to improve labeling, feature sets, evaluation frameworks, and model decay monitoring
• Surface data quality limitations and systematically formalize missing features
• Translate exploratory research into reusable feature pipelines, model inputs, or rule augmentations
• Participate in product discovery, roadmap planning, and post-launch evaluation to ensure fraud-awareness by design
• Conduct longitudinal and structural analysis of how fraud types manifest in Plaid network data — entity linkages, temporal patterns, attack rotations, tool chains
• Experiment with network/graph analysis, sequence mining, anomaly detection, and custom heuristics where off-the-shelf approaches fail
• Continuously survey external fraud trends, adversary techniques, tooling, and emerging threat vectors
• Proactively perform threat modeling of abuse surfaces and initiate research proposals when patterns emerge
• Produce clear, evidence-backed technical reports and case studies for product, engineering, operations, legal, and executive stakeholders
• Document investigation workflows, attack classifications, and proof-of-concept detection logic
• Drive post-incident learning by capturing lessons from fraud incidents and feeding them back into defenses

Senior Fraud Research Analyst

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own components of Plaid’s 3–5 year long range plan — model design, scenario analysis, and translation of company strategy into financial targets.
• Partner on end-to-end PMO of the quarterly Board process, including framework development, narrative ownership, materials build, and Q&A management.
• Build and operationalize SBC and equity modeling, incorporating HC growth, grant cadence, forfeitures, and refresh cycles — and tie SBC into the path to GAAP profitability, EBITDA, and margin analysis.
• Lead consolidated cash flow forecasting and contingency / management reserve strategy, and run total company forecast reviews against company targets.
• Drive external benchmarking against peer companies on key financial and non-financial metrics, and build the analytical foundations that inform long-term capital and operating decisions.
• Partner with Corp Dev on capital raise activities, including pro-forma reporting, forecasting, and capital structure analysis.
• Perform ad hoc analyses that influence long-term business planning and decision-making.

Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance – Strategy

Developer Relations

• Create and evolve developer documentation for Plaid’s APIs – writing new content, and improving clarity, accuracy, and usability of existing content.
• Design and build sample applications, demos, and tutorial videos that demonstrate the benefits of integrating with Plaid’s APIs and the best practices to use during integrations.
• Improve and maintain developer-facing resources, including the Postman collection, documentation website, and other assets.
• Serve as the developer’s advocate, working with the developer community and translating external developer needs into actionable product and documentation insights for internal teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Design, and Marketing to ensure Plaid delivers a best-in-class developer experience and to build solutions that engage, activate, and onboard new developers at scale.

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Data Scientist

• Champion a data-first approach to decision-making across the organization as Plaid App is built and scaled, serving as the data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Translate ambiguous business and product questions into clear analytics projects and decision frameworks, and perform ad-hoc and strategic analyses to identify opportunities to improve user outcomes and business performance.
• Build and maintain data models, dashboards, core metrics, OKRs, and success metrics that improve visibility into Guard performance and quantify progress against business goals.
• Design and analyze experiments to support feature launch and iteration decisions, and partner on Airflow- and dbt-powered data pipelines that enable trustworthy analytics and scalable reporting.
• Identify novel ways to impact top-line OKRs and influence stakeholders on prioritization, roadmapping, and execution, while exploring ML prototypes and causal inference approaches where they can improve product or decision quality.

Senior Data Scientist – Network Value

Data Engineer

• Understanding different aspects of the Plaid product and strategy to inform golden dataset choices, design and data usage principles.
• Have data quality and performance top of mind while designing datasetsLeading key data engineering projects that drive collaboration across the company.
• Advocating for adopting industry tools and practices at the right time.
• Owning core SQL and python data pipelines that power our data lake and data warehouse.
• Well-documented data with defined dataset quality, uptime, and usefulness.

Senior Data Engineer – Data Engineering

Sales

• Build and manage a complete sales pipeline, from prospecting and pitching to closing deals and managing post-sale client relationships to drive recurring revenue.
• Develop and present compelling advertising solutions and media packages tailored to meet the marketing objectives of prospective clients.
• Become an expert on our audience data, media products, and the competitive landscape to effectively position This Week in Fintech as the premier media partner in the industry.
• Work closely with the content and operations teams to ensure smooth execution of client campaigns and deliver maximum value to our sponsors.
• Embrace a fast-paced environment and contribute to the overall growth strategy of the company.

Sales Lead – This Week in Fintech

Security Engineer

• Own GRC Engineering at Plaid
• Define the discipline and the architecture
• Build the foundation the function runs on
• Make risk visible and data-driven
• Drive data-informed risk assessments

Head of Detection and Response

Accounting Manager

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer – AI Tooling

Senior Security Analyst, Customer Assurance

Senior Indirect Tax Associate

Senior Fraud Research Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance – Strategy

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Senior Data Scientist – Network Value

Senior Data Engineer – Data Engineering

Sales Lead – This Week in Fintech

Security Engineer, GRC