Security Engineer, Detect & Respond

📋 Job Overview

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. We're 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).

🏢 About Betterment

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. We're 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).

🎯 The Role

As a Security Engineer on the Detect and Respond team at Betterment, you'll help keep our customers and their money safe by building and operating the detection capabilities our security team depends on every day. You'll 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 we've 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 Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.

📌 Required Qualifications

• We're 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; you're 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

🎁 Benefits

• 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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

• 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.