Job Description
Quick Facts
Role: Security Engineer
Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
Base salary: $200K to $325K
Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
About Moment
Moment is building the operating system for investment management. The company’s platform brings trading, operations, and infrastructure workflows into one unified system for financial institutions.
Founded by former quants from Citadel Securities and Jane Street, Moment launched publicly in 2024 and now supports institutions managing more than $8T in assets.
Moment has raised $56M in funding from leading investors including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed. Its most recent $36M Series B was led by Index. You can read Bloomberg's coverage of it here and the memo Index wrote on why they invested.
About the Role
You’ll be one of Moment’s core members in our security engineering team. You’ll work closely with platform and product engineers as well as business stakeholders to ensure we earn our customer’s trust. You’ll also help shape and drive ownership for Moment’s security program as we grow.
What you’ll do…
Deeply understand the product and partner with teams to build products in an inherently secure manner.
Integrate and build tooling to promote secure coding practices.
Build, deploy and evangelize application primitives that increase the security posture of Moment’s product.
Collaborate with the platform engineering team to design and deploy platform level mitigations to common security issues.
Help lead security incident responses.
You're a good fit if you're...
An engineer at heart.
Looking to level up as a security practitioner in a fast-paced growing environment.
Someone with a deep understanding of security technologies, tools, best practices and trends.
Someone who’s worked in a platform or infrastructure role.
Even better if you have experience with...
AWS and managing secure cloud environments.
Leading efforts to remediate security incidents.
Go, Python, or Typescript.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage.
$150 monthly gym stipend.
Free lunch and dinner.
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