Sr Security Engineer
Sr Security Engineer
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$ 175000 - 205000
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About Betterment
Betterment is a leading technologydriven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions including a 401(k) for small and mediumsized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making peoples lives better. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NYbased positions (three days/ week inoffice).
About the role
The Security Engineering team is a trusted partner throughout the organization. We work hard to make Betterment the most secure place for our customers money. We do this by building tools for our development teams improving the security and integrity of our systems and adding monitoring and visibility into our services. This helps us move faster and smarter all while done within a highly regulated and secure environment.
We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform including AWS Kubernetes (EKS) Helm Terraform Datadog CircleCI and Splunk. We write review and advise in Ruby Javascript Java and Python just to name a few of our popular languages. As an engineer on the Security Engineering team youll help deliver new products tools and systems in a secure manner that make engineering more impactful and help keep our customers safe and happy!
You use this experience to guide your decision making ranging from communication style to software architecture. You are a highly motivated engineer who will work on tasks such as delivering new tools and systems that make engineering more impactful or working with your peers to help improve the security and reliability of our systems. You will work with our Security Operations Center (SOC) to monitor triage and remedy security events while also improving detection logic. You are always keeping up with what is going on within the tech industry and strive to learn and share your knowledge with colleagues. You are interested in collecting data and metrics and know how to use them to effectively drive change.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below weve reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterments total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $175000 $205000
We offer a competitive equity package health dental and vision benefits life and AD&D shortterm and longterm disability insurance EAP commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday weekly.
A day in the life
- Lead and collaborate on cloud security initiatives strengthening our engineering practices
- Align security capabilities of cloud infrastructure and services with evolving threats by enhancing vulnerability detection and patching processes.
- Write and review infrastructure code to resolve security concerns alongside SRE IT platform and data engineers.
- Conduct threat modeling exercises architecture reviews and offensive security engagements with product teams
- Innovate with modern cloud technologies to secure systems such as CI/CD sensitive data storage business continuity/ disaster recovery and client data retrieval and more
- Provide mentorship and education for security and software engineering excellence
What were looking for
- 5 years of experience designing building and revising secure AWS cloud environments with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform.
- Deep experience and understanding of securing modern cloud environments (AWS resource specific security issues Security Hub recommendations secure crossaccount access patterns secure IAM patterns)
- Experience with exploiting common cloud security vulnerabilities and fixing them.
- Experience working in a product setting where the needs of the business and users must be weighed against security requirements
- Experience doing secure code reviews (e.g. identifying OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities)
- Experience providing security guidance on protocols like DNS HTTP TLS etc
- Experience with the Linux command line interface
- Experience with any of these technologies is a plus: CircleCI Kubernetes Postgres GraphQL Ruby on Rails Flutter React
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to navigate complex and varying stakeholder needs
- Ability to build trust and maintain positive working relationships
What being at Betterment means for you
We change lives
Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission: making peoples lives better.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company our customers and ourselvesand we wont stop until we reach them. We dont just show up; we give our all then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate were at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We invest in you with:
- A competitive suite of benefits including: medical dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
- Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!
- Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
- Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
- Dedicated professional development opportunities
- Lunch from our inhouse chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
Well take a few weeks to review all applications. If wed like to spend more time with you well reach out to arrange next steps which will include 34 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process well look to learn more about your skills experiences capabilities and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average it takes us around 35 weeks to make a hiring decision depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice we aim to interview at least 23 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions were unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process please reach out to your recruiter.
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Come join us!
Were an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color religion creed national origin or ancestry ethnicity sex gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual) sexual orientation marital status age physical or mental disability citizenship past current or prospective service in the uniformed services predisposing genetic characteristic domestic violence victim status arrest records or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.
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Betterment participates in EVerify. We will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employees Form I9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to prescreen job applicants.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
