Senior Security Engineer, Betterment
$175-205k
+ Equity package
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Banking and investment app
Posted today
Banking and investment app
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$175-205k
+ Equity package
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make people’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- 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 cross-account 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 the job involves
- The Security Engineering team is a trusted partner throughout the organization
- As an engineer on the Security Engineering team, you'll 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
- 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
Application process
- We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues
- In the interview process, we’ll 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, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process
Our take
Betterment is an app-based investment platform that provides personal finance data and guidance to retail users through a range of real-world data and AI analytics to deliver investment advice to customers.
The company has become the largest independent digital investment advisor in the U.S. Having expanded its 401k business, Betterment has entered the world of Crypto, partnering with Gemini to offer customized crypto portfolios and its "Crypto Investing by Betterment" platform.
Betterment has a wealth of competition in this increasingly crowded space. Other robo advisors offering similar services include Moneyfarm, Wealth Simple, M1 Finance and Personal Capital. Going forward, Betterment hopes to further distance itself from rivals as it further innovates its platform.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$60m
SERIES F
Jul 2017
$70m
SERIES E
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Get comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, plus a free subscription to One Medical.©
- Generous time off: We encourage you to take time off (seriously) and get the rest you need to do your best work.
- Paid parental leave: We welcome new additions to your family with 12-18 weeks of parental leave.
- Matching benefits: We offer a 401(k) match and a match on qualified student loan payments
- Equity: Gain stake in Betterment’s success with company equity grants.
- Free food: Snacks, beverages, and catered lunches at our NYC HQ
- Long-term health resources: We provide LGBTQIA+ transition and fertility support.
- Find your community: Make connections through seven employee affinity groups and a social calendar of hybrid events.
Company values
- Pursue happiness
- Start with the customer
- Build relationships beyond the task
- Own it and lead it
- Iterate to breakthrough
- Embrace efficiency
- Create enduring quality
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jonathan Stein
(Board Member)After studying Economics at Harvard, Jonathan worked as a Consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group for over 4 years. He founded Betterment in 2007, serving as CEO until 2020 when he stepped down to Chairman of the Board.
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