Sr. Product Security Engineer
Betterment
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Job summary
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building software.
- Deep experience securing modern web apps.
- Experience in product settings weighing business needs against security.
Responsibilities
- Lead product security initiatives.
- Write and review security-related code with development teams.
- Conduct threat modeling and architecture reviews.
Skills
Job description
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Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors, investment advisors, and 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).
The 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 while staying within a highly regulated and secure environment.
- 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: GraphQL, React, CircleCI, 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.
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
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.
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.
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. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.
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We collect and store personal information for the purposes of candidate tracking (for this role and future opportunities). The information you provide in the course of completing your application will be kept for up to 24 months. We use tools provided by third-party service providers but do not share candidate information for any purpose other than for recruiting. To access the data that is collected, request deletion or to make updates to your candidate profile, please email team.hire@betterment.com.
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 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.
Mid-Senior level
Full-time
Information Technology
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