# Sr. Product Security Engineer

**Company:** [Betterment](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/betterment)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $205k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Python, CircleCI, Datadog, Splunk
**Posted:** 2026-01-14

> Senior Product Security Engineer leads security initiatives, conducts threat modeling and architecture reviews, and builds secure systems using AWS, Kubernetes, and modern languages. Requires 5+ years software experience and deep web app security knowledge.

## Job Description

## About the role

The Security Engineering team builds tools for development teams, improves system security and integrity, and adds monitoring to services in a regulated environment. They use Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Python, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Terraform, Datadog, CircleCI, and Splunk. This role delivers secure products, tools, and systems.

**A day in the life**
- Lead and collaborate on product security initiatives strengthening our engineering practices
- Write and review customer facing code to resolve security concerns alongside product development engineers
- Conduct threat modeling exercises, architecture reviews, and offensive security engagements with product teams
- Innovate with modern cloud technologies to secure systems such as CI/CD, sensitive data storage, mobile design, front end web services, and more
- Provide mentorship and education for security and software engineering excellence

**What we’re looking for**
- 5+ years of experience building software
- Deep experience and understanding of securing modern web apps (OWASP top 10, CWEs, and language specific application security issues)
- Experience working in a product setting where the needs of the business and users must be weighed against security requirements
- Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities and fixing them
- 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)
- Experience with any of these technologies is a plus: GraphQL, React, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres

**Compensation (New York City)**
$205,000 - $215,000 base salary, plus competitive equity, health benefits, 401(k) match, flexible PTO, and potential bonus.

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