Engineering Manager, Detect & Respond

Detection Program Strategy : Help own, drive, and execute the Detection Engineering roadmap, balancing new capability development with the operational health of existing systems, including driving threat-informed, TTP-aligned detection development across the team.

Detection Quality : Work with engineers and the business to maintain and refine the measurement framework for detection health, coverage, precision, false positive rates, and safe rollout practices, holding the team to a continuously improving bar.

Threat Modeling : Set expectations for how the team engages with engineering and infrastructure partners on new systems, ensuring D&R requirements (telemetry, threat models, response playbooks) are defined before systems ship.

Incident Response Leadership : Lead or oversee the team's response to security incidents, ensuring clear ownership, fast time-to-contain, and strong post-incident review practices.

Team Leadership : Lead, mentor, and grow a team of detection engineers, investing in their craft and careers.

External SOC Partnership : Partner with our external SOC to define scope, improve triage quality, and identify opportunities to hand off well-defined alert handling.

Cross-functional Collaboration : Collaborate with IT, Risk, Compliance, and the broader Security Engineering team to understand security priorities and translate them into engineering work. Represent Detection Engineering across the organization, making security work legible to non-security teams and building strong stakeholder relationships.

Engineering Quality : Hold a high bar for engineering quality, automated testing, proper observability, documented runbooks, and maintainable code.

Compliance : Lead the team through audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.), ensuring detection infrastructure supports compliance evidence and control requirements.

We are seeking a team member with 7+ years in security engineering or operations, with 2+ years managing security or detection engineering teams including senior engineers.

Player-Coach : A track record as a true player-coach, comfortable going deep on technical problems while also leading people and programs.

Detection Expertise : Strong background in SIEM platforms (Splunk preferred), detection-as-code practices, and threat-informed detection development including familiarity with adversary TTPs and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.

Incident Response : Experience leading or overseeing incident response, including establishing IR playbooks and driving post-incident review practices.

External SOC : Experience working with or managing an external SOC, including defining escalation paths and performance expectations.

Cloud & Tooling : Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS), endpoint security (CrowdStrike or similar), and identity platforms (Okta or similar).

Engineering Quality : Passion for engineering quality, you hold the team to the same standards as any product engineering team.

Compliance : Experience collaborating with Compliance, Risk, and Audit teams on security controls and evidence collection.

Communication : Clear, direct communicator who can translate security context for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

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 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.

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.

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

Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters

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.

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