Sr. Product Security Engineer

Betterment

Hybrid Actively hiring
New York City Posted 39 days ago $205,000–$215,000 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior Product Security Engineer at Betterment, you will join the Security Engineering team in New York City or remotely to enhance product security and integrity. Your daily tasks include leading security initiatives, reviewing code for vulnerabilities, conducting threat modeling, and providing mentorship to ensure secure development practices. You'll work with technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Splunk to build robust security solutions for CI/CD pipelines, data storage, and web services. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software development experience, deep knowledge of securing modern web applications, and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and high-availability systems. This role demands expertise in Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Python, and a solid understanding of security frameworks like OWASP and CWEs.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Ruby JavaScript Python Java CI/CD Datadog CircleCI Helm Postgres GraphQL React

What you'll do

  • Lead and collaborate on product security initiatives to strengthen engineering practices.
  • Write and review customer-facing code to resolve security concerns with development teams.
  • Conduct threat modeling exercises, architecture reviews, and offensive security engagements.
  • Innovate with modern cloud technologies to secure systems like CI/CD and sensitive data storage.
  • Provide mentorship and education for security and software engineering excellence.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building software and securing modern web applications.
  • Deep understanding of OWASP top 10, CWEs, and language-specific application security issues.
  • Experience in a product setting balancing business needs with security requirements.
  • Proficiency in exploiting common security vulnerabilities and implementing fixes.
  • Expertise in building high-availability distributed systems using object-oriented languages.

Market check

Salary context

This $205,000–$215,000 range sits above 71% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$132,000–$220,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$141,462–$215,849

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Betterment

Betterment is an automated investment service (robo-advisor) that uses technology to provide personalized investment management, retirement planning, and savings optimization at low cost for retail investors. Industry: Financial Technology & Wealth Management

Betterment currently has 16 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $200,000–$221,500 across 16 roles with salary data.

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