Plaid
Head of Detection and Response
US
UTC-10 to UTC-5 $192k to $372k per year Full time
Head or Director
- Where you can live
- Remote United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 192,000 to 372,200 per year
- Posted
- October 27, 2026
Summary from the posting
We are hiring for a leader for the newly forming Detection and Response team at Plaid. Our mission is to protect Plaid's financial infrastructure by detecting and responding to suspicious activity across the company. We are responsible for the entire lifecycle of detection and response, including detection infrastructure, AI triage and response, investigation tooling, Red Teaming, and Fraud Operations. Security is foundational to the trust thousands of businesses and millions of consumers place in Plaid, and we work directly to reduce risks and enable our business to move faster and safer.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Plaid's own career page.