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    Security Engineer - New York, United States - Betterment

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    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 (three days/ week in-office) and select, non-NY-based remote positions.

    About the role

    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, all while done within a highly regulated and secure environment.

    We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Terraform, Datadog, CircleCI, Splunk and write our code in Ruby, Python, Go, and Bash, just to name a few. 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. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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 Betterment's total compensation package for employees.
    • New York City: $145,000 - $155,000
    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 Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.
    A day in the life
    • Bolster security in systems such as CI/CD, sensitive data storage, mobile design, front end web services, and more.
    • Build software to keep our customers and company safe and secure.
    • Work on impactful engineering problems across Betterment.
    • Maintain high uptime for core services.
    • Provide guidance and education for security and software engineering excellence.
    What we're looking for
    • 3+ years of experience building software.
    • Experience building high-availability distributed systems and services with Python or Ruby.
    • Experience with Linux command line interface.
    • Experience with and an understanding of securing modern web apps.
    • Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities and fixing them.
    • 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.
    What being at Betterment means for you

    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
    • Complimentary financial advice from our team of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERSTM
    • Lunch from our in-house chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters
    What happens next

    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

    Please note that 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.

    Come join us

    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.

    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. 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


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