Engineering Manager, Detect & Respond

GoTo Meeting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Professional development opportunities

Lunch from in-house chef

Job summary

A financial technology company in New York is looking for an Engineering Manager of Detection Engineering to lead security detection capabilities. In this role, you will develop and execute a roadmap, mentor a team, and ensure high-quality incident response. Candidates should have a strong background in security engineering, experience with SIEM platforms, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible paid time off and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security engineering or operations, with 2+ years managing teams.
• Strong background in SIEM platforms and detection development.
• Experience leading incident response and establishing IR playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the Detection Engineering roadmap.
• Maintain detection health and quality measurement.
• Lead incident response to security events and ensure effective review.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Detection expertise

Communication

Cloud environments (AWS)

Engineering quality

Compliance collaboration

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike

Okta

Job description

About the Role

Betterment’s mission is to make people’s lives better through smarter financial tools, and protecting that trust is where security comes in. As Engineering Manager of Detection Engineering, you’ll lead the team responsible for building and operating Betterment’s security detection capabilities. You’ll 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.

You’ll 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. You’ll 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 is 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 one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $175,000 - $215,000

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: 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: 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 team’s response to security incidents, ensuring clear ownership, fast time‑to‑contain, and strong post‑incident review practices.
• Team Leadership: 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: Work 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 We’re Looking For

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

• Player‑Coach: 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, establishing IR playbooks, and driving post‑incident review practices.
• External SOC: Experience working with or managing an external SOC, 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; 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.

Benefits

• 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 (encouraged to use).
• 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re 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, 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.

E‑Verify Statement

Betterment participates in E‑Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee’s Form I‑9 to confirm work authorization. We do not use this information to pre‑screen job applicants.

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