Engineering Manager, Detect & Respond

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading technology-driven financial services company that offers investing savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).

About the Role

Betterments mission is to make peoples lives better through smarter financial tools and protecting that trust is where security comes in. As Engineering Manager of Detection Engineering youll lead the team responsible for building and operating Betterments security detection capabilities. Youll own the strategy and execution for how we detect threats across our cloud infrastructure SaaS ecosystem and product giving your team the direction and support they need to do their best work.

Youll partner closely with Security Engineering IT Risk and Engineering leadership to mature our detection program balancing the delivery of new capabilities with the operational rigor our customers and business depend on. Youll be a hands-on leader who can go deep on the work while also driving the roadmap growing your team and translating security priorities into engineering outcomes.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below weve reflected the base salary range 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 - $215000

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

A Day in the Life:

• Detection Program Strategy: Help own drive and execute the Detection Engineering roadmap balancing new capability development with the operational health of existing systems including driving threat-informed TTP-aligned detection development across the team.
• Detection Quality: Work with engineers and the business to maintain and refine the measurement framework for detection health coverage precision false positive rates and safe rollout practices holding the team to a continuously improving bar.
• Threat Modeling: Set expectations for how the team engages with engineering and infrastructure partners on new systems ensuring D&R requirements (telemetry threat models response playbooks) are defined before systems ship.
• Incident Response Leadership: Lead or oversee the teams response to security incidents ensuring clear ownership fast time-to-contain and strong post-incident review practices.
• Team Leadership: Lead mentor and grow a team of detection engineers investing in their craft and careers.
• External SOC Partnership: Partner with our external SOC to define scope improve triage quality and identify opportunities to hand off well-defined alert handling.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with IT Risk Compliance and the broader Security Engineering team to understand security priorities and translate them into engineering work. Represent Detection Engineering across the organization making security work legible to non-security teams and building strong stakeholder relationships.
• Engineering Quality: Hold a high bar for engineering quality automated testing proper observability documented runbooks and maintainable code.
• Compliance: Lead the team through audits (SOC 2 ISO 27001 etc.) ensuring detection infrastructure supports compliance evidence and control requirements.

What Were Looking For:

We are seeking a team member with 7 years in security engineering or operations with 2 years managing security or detection engineering teams including senior engineers.

• Player-Coach: A track record as a true player-coach comfortable going deep on technical problems while also leading people and programs.
• Detection Expertise: Strong background in SIEM platforms (Splunk preferred) detection-as-code practices and threat-informed detection development including familiarity with adversary TTPs and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• Incident Response: Experience leading or overseeing incident response including establishing IR playbooks and driving post-incident review practices.
• External SOC: Experience working with or managing an external SOC including defining escalation paths and performance expectations.
• Cloud & Tooling: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS) endpoint security (CrowdStrike or similar) and identity platforms (Okta or similar).
• Engineering Quality: Passion for engineering quality you hold the team to the same standards as any product engineering team.
• Compliance: Experience collaborating with Compliance Risk and Audit teams on security controls and evidence collection.
• Communication: Clear direct communicator who can translate security context for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

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 in-house chef 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 3-4 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 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice we aim to interview at least 2-3 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!

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Come join us!

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