Security Engineer, Detect & Respond

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).

As a Security Engineer on the Detect and Respond team at Betterment youll help keep our customers and their money safe by building and operating the detection capabilities our security team depends on every day. Youll work alongside experienced engineers on a team that takes software quality seriously writing reliable alerts building integrations contributing to incident response and improving the on-call experience.

This role is a great fit for an engineer who has a security foundation and wants to grow their craft in a collaborative engineering-forward environment.

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: $145000 - $180000

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

- Build and evolve detection and response capabilities across Betterments infrastructure with an emphasis on high-signal detection and reliable operational response-

- Help improve our detections over time using on-call feedback and false positive trends to quiet whats noisy and close the gaps in what were missing

- Help bring SaaS application logs from across the organization into our SIEM coordinating with other teams as needed

- Participate in Security On Call cycles responding to alerts and helping improve triage processes over time

- Contribute to SIEM administration including lookups integrations and alert hygiene

- Build and maintain automations that streamline the on-call experience and reduce manual toil for Security Engineering

- Help the team get real leverage out of AI tooling building it into how we develop detections and run triage and being open about where it doesnt pull its weight

- Build detection coverage for our growing AI surface agent and connector activity misuse and prompt injection company data moving through AI tools much of it detection work without an established playbook yet

- Help build visibility into how AI tools are used across the organization partnering with our AI Governance and Workforce Security colleagues as that surface grows

- Take part in reviews of new systems and data sources alongside engineering partners helping work out what telemetry we need and what wed want to detect before those systems ship

- Support incident response triage investigation and containment and help keep our response playbooks current as we learn from each one

- Were seeking a team member with 3 years of experience in security operations or security engineering.

- Experience with common industry SIEM and SOAR platforms including writing searches and building alerts

- Familiarity with common attacker tactics and techniques including frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and an interest in turning threat behavior into practical detections

- Exposure to incident response alert triage investigation or containment work

- Programming or scripting background; youre comfortable reading and writing code

- Enthusiasm for AI tools and workflows with the judgment to know where their output needs verifying and the appetite to introduce new capabilities responsibly

- Awareness of the security questions AI systems raise agent and connector permissions prompt injection non-human identity data leaving through AI tools or the drive to get up to speed quickly

- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS) and common SaaS security tools like CrowdStrike or Okta

- An interest in security engineering as a craft you want to build things that are reliable well-documented and easy for others to maintain

- Curiosity and a willingness to dig into new tools data sources and problem spaces

- Strong written communication skills you can write a clear runbook and explain a security concept to a non-technical colleague

We change lives

Be a part of a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission; to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company our customers and ourselves and 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 simplify financial services

Were financial services pioneers always finding new ways to improve optimize and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.

Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:

• We offer a competitive suite of benefits including medical dental and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
• Ownership: Equity for all employees including new hire and refresher grants.
• Time: Flexible paid time off paid parental leave and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
• Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
• Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.

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!

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.