Security Engineer, Detect & Respond

About the role

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).

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.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve detection and response capabilities across Betterment's infrastructure, with an emphasis on high-signal detection and reliable operational response
• Help improve our detections over time, using on-call feedback and false positive trends to quiet what's noisy and close the gaps in what we're missing
• Help bring SaaS application logs from across the organization into our SIEM, coordinating with other teams as needed
• Participate in Security On Call cycles, responding to alerts and helping improve triage processes over time
• Contribute to SIEM administration, including lookups, integr