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Betterment · 2 days ago

Security Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$170K/yr - $180K/yr

3+ years exp

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions. The Security Engineer will enhance security across systems, build tools for development teams, and ensure the integrity of services to protect customers' assets.

FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechImpact InvestingRetirement

Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Securing modern web appsAWS cloud infrastructureBuilding high-availability systemsLinux command lineObject Oriented ProgrammingRubyJavascriptJavaPythonGraphQLReactCircleCIKubernetesTerraformPostgres

Required

3+ years of experience building software

Experience and understanding of securing modern web apps (OWASP top 10, CWEs, and language specific application security issues)

Experience with and an understanding of securing modern web apps

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)

Preferred

Experience with any of these technologies is a plus: GraphQL, React, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres

Benefits

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

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO policy

Generous parental leave

Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups

Dedicated professional development opportunities

Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters

Company

Betterment

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Betterment is an online investment company that offers investing and retirement solutions for their current clients and clients-to-be.

Founded in 2008

New York, New York, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.betterment.com

H1B Sponsorship

Betterment has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2024 (1)

2022 (1)

2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$435M

Key Investors

TreasuryORIX Growth CapitalSharesPost Investment Management

2021-09-29Series F· $60M

2021-09-29Debt Financing· $100M

2021-04-30Series Unknown

Leadership Team

John Mileham

CTO

Jon Stein

Founder and Board Member

Recent News

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PR Newswire

Nearly Half of U.S. Workers Now Say They'll Need $1 Million or More to Retire, Betterment Finds

2025-12-15

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