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Senior Software Engineer - Product Security
Plaid INC · 🇺🇸 Seattle Office; San Francisco HQ; New York City Office
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 27 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Plaid INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Software Engineer” (Information Security Analysts) in NY: $180k–$180k, median $180k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Plaid INC
The US Department of Labor certified 27 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Product Security team is responsible for managing the security processes, policies and controls to secure Plaid’s developer and consumer facing products.The product security team is focused on areas like Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing and Cloud Security. We build the services and components that protect Plaid’s products. We move security "left" by engineering common libraries, modules, and workflows that make the secure path the easiest path for all Plaid engineers. Plaid is looking for a Product Security Engineer who is a builder to join our Product Security team. Unlike traditional Product security roles, this position is for a Senior software engineer who wants to solve security challenges at scale by designing and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks. Our goal is to make the "secure path" the only path for Plaid developers. The Role - You will lead, design and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil. - You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes. - You will also partner with product and engineering teams to architect and build security controls to make our products even more secure. - You will consult with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards. - You will help educate and support other engineering teams to improve security in their own products and services. - You will assist with Plaid’s incident response and security awareness programs. - You will collaborate with other security platform members and build necessary engineering solutions to meet their needs. 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 - 5 + years of professional experience building and scaling production services - Ability to architect and build software systems to meet security, privacy, usability, scalability and cost requirement