Sr. Product Security Engineer
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Software Development
About Betterment
Betterment is a leading, technology-driven 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 medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (Four days/ week in-office).
About the roleThe Security Engineering team is a trusted partner throughout the organization who 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 write, review, and advise in Ruby, Java script, Java, and Python just to name a few of our popular languages. We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Terraform, Datadog, Circle
CI, and Splunk. 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!
This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. The base salary range offered for this position is reflected below. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $175,000 - $205,000
We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term 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 Monday through Thursday, weekly.
Aday in the life
- Lead and collaborate on product security initiatives strengthening our engineering practices
- Write and review customer facing code to resolve security concerns alongside product development 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, mobile design, front end web services, and more
- Provide mentorship and education for security and software engineering excellence
- 5+ years of experience building software
- Deep experience and understanding of securing modern web apps (OWASP top 10, CWEs, and language specific application security issues)
- Experience working in a product setting where the needs of the business and users must be weighed against security requirements
- Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities and fixing them Experience building high-availability distributed systems and services with any Object Oriented Programming language
- Experience with the Linux command line interface
- Experience with securing AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, VPCs)
- Experience with any of these technologies is a plus:
Graph
QL, React, Circle
CI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres
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 people's lives better.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
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