Security Engineer
Moment
New York, NY · $200k–$400k a year · Posted May 20, 2026
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Rankings about security jobs
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Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $300,000 a year. Across 73 open security engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $160,000 to $267,500 and the median is $220,000. That is 36% above the median, above the middle half of those listings.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
Among computer occupations, all other, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for computer occupations, all other: 31% (high).
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About the job
SECURITY ENGINEER
BUILD THE FUTURE OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT WITH US
The infrastructure managing $300 trillion in assets was built in the 90s. Now, all of it is up for grabs. The winner of the AI era of investment management will be a $100B+ company. We intend to be that company.
To get there, we're assembling the most talent-dense startup in New York. We hire people who are 1) exceptional, 2) allergic to anything that's not exceptional, and 3) recruiters of other exceptional people. We also have no tolerance for brilliant jerks.
We run lean by design. We work with a select group of the largest financial institutions in the world, go incredibly deep with each, and sit in the flow of trillions of dollars. We hire fewer people, ask each to own the outcome, and pay on impact - not tenure or experience.
Moment is not for everyone. The standards are unreasonably high. The pace is intense. And there is no playbook.
In return: the best work of your career, building a generational company.
ABOUT MOMENT
Moment is the AI operating system for investment management, built for the world's largest wealth firms and fintechs. Moment works with firms managing more than $10 trillion in client assets and is backed by Index, a16z, and Lightspeed. Moment was founded by former quants from Citadel and Jane Street and is based in NYC.
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 HAVE
- An engineer at heart mentality.
- Motivation to level up as a security practitioner in a fast-paced growing environment.
- Deep understanding of security technologies, tools, best practices and trends.
- Worked in a platform or infrastructure role.
EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAVE
- Experience with AWS and managing secure cloud environments.
- Lead efforts to remediate security incidents.
- Go, Python, or Typescript experience
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- Base salary: $200K to $400K
- Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
- Our beautiful West Village Office with a terrace / 5x a week in office
- Free lunch and dinner.
- $150 monthly gym stipend.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage. 100% company reimbursement.