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title: 'Security Engineering Manager at Beyond Finance'
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# Security Engineering Manager at Beyond Finance

- **Company:** Beyond Finance
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $170k–$200k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beyondfinance/jobs/8160186

## Job description

At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

## The Role

As the Security Engineering Manager, you will lead our Security Engineering team in a hands-on technical leadership role focused on securing the company’s cloud-native environment and development pipeline. You will manage a team of security engineers responsible for cloud infrastructure security, application security, CI/CD pipeline hardening, DSPM, and SaaS security posture management. Your primary objective is to harden our security posture, build and maintain preventative controls, and translate security strategy into a technically sound engineering roadmap.

## Key Responsibilities

- Technical Execution & Architecture: Remain hands-on in configuring cloud security tooling, reviewing architecture, and validating engineering decisions. Serve as the technical escalation point for complex challenges across the team’s domain.
- Cloud & Application Security Program Ownership: Own the security engineering program and drive continuous improvement in the security of the company’s development lifecycle and cloud environment.
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop a team of security engineers, managing their performance and growth while fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
- Project Management & Execution: Define, manage, and execute security engineering projects from conception to completion, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and on-time delivery.
- Cross-Functional Partnership & Security Standards: Partner with DevOps, Engineering, and Product leadership to ensure security requirements are integrated into engineering roadmaps. Define the target security state for engineering teams and validate effective implementation.
- Driving Results: Proactively drive security initiatives and remediation to completion by removing roadblocks and instilling a sense of urgency.

Skill Requirements

- 7+ years of hands-on InfoSec experience in Cloud Security, Application Security, or DevSecOps.
- Direct people management experience in a security or engineering context, with a proven ability to drive technical projects to completion through a team.
- Strong understanding of application security, CI/CD pipeline security, secrets management, and secure development practices.
- Proven ability to translate security strategy into actionable engineering requirements — both for a dedicated security team and in partnership with development organizations.

Desirable Skills

- Hands-on experience with AWS security services and cloud-native security tooling (CSPM, CWPP, DSPM).
- Experience with application security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA) and securing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Spacelift).
- Familiarity with securing custom CRM or business-critical application environments.
- Knowledge of identity security across both human and non-human identities, including service accounts and API keys.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a technically deep security leader who has not lost their edge. You still get your hands dirty in cloud consoles and architecture reviews, but you measure your success by your team’s ability to systematically reduce risk across the company’s cloud infrastructure and applications. You possess the technical credibility to earn the respect of engineers and the interpersonal instincts to navigate the critical partnership between security, DevOps, and development. You are the technical backbone of the security engineering function, keeping your team focused on the work that has the greatest impact on the company’s security posture.

## #LI-LB2

The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.

Base Salary Range $170,000—$200,000 USD

Why Join Us?

While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

- Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching program
- Merit advancement opportunities
- Career development & training

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions.  No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team.  No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.

## About Beyond Finance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beyond Finance helps individuals overcome debt through customized, technology-driven debt relief programs, serving over 1 million clients since its founding.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Houston, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fintech – debt relief and consumer financial wellness
- **Target customers**: B2C – individuals burdened with unsecured debt (credit cards, medical bills, personal loans, etc.)
- **Mission statement**: To help people say goodbye to debt and live better, happier lives.

## Products & Services
- **Debt Resolution Program**: A customized, data-driven program that negotiates with creditors to reduce the total amount owed. The company earns its fee only after successfully settling a debt for the client. The program includes dedicated client support and financial education resources.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Over 1 million clients helped; employee headcount of approximately 2,200 (as of 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed. The company partners with **Hiring Our Heroes** to recruit military veterans and spouses.
- **Growth Signals**: Employee base expanded from 5 states to 41 states between 2020 and 2022, indicating rapid scaling. Offices in Houston, Chicago, Irvine, San Diego, and Fort Worth. Continued hiring across multiple roles (e.g., Inside Sales, Technical Product Manager) as of mid-2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Performance-based fee model**: No upfront fees – company only earns when clients see results, aligning incentives.
- **Technology & data-driven approach**: Uses metrics and innovation to optimize client outcomes and retention.
- **Customized, one-on-one support**: Each client receives a tailored plan with ongoing guidance.
- **Scalable remote/hybrid workforce**: Extensive investment in a distributed team culture allows talent acquisition from a wide geographic pool.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued expansion of client base** by scaling marketing and sales efforts.
- **Deepening technology capabilities** to improve personalization and efficiency of debt resolution.
- **Talent development** – emphasis on promoting from within, professional training, and building a strong internal culture to support growth.
- **Hybrid work model** – balancing in-office collaboration (2–4 days/week) with remote flexibility to maintain culture and productivity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Empowerment, collaboration, autonomy, “Best Answer Wins,” and a strong client-first mindset. Recognition and impact are central themes.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid working model (onsite 2–4 days per week depending on team). Offices in Houston, Chicago, Irvine, San Diego, Fort Worth. Remote-first environment with regular virtual social events.
- **Benefits** (full-time):
  - 401(k) matching (100% of first 3%, 50% of next 2%, immediate vesting)
  - Generous PTO – unlimited for salaried, 15 days accrual starting for hourly (increasing with tenure), plus 8 paid holidays
  - Paid parental leave (10 weeks for moms, 5 weeks for dads after 1 year)
  - Comprehensive health plans (medical, dental, vision, FSAs, short/long-term disability)
  - At-home equipment provisions
  - LifeMart discount program (travel, tuition, child care, etc.)
  - Paid referral bonuses up to $20,000
- **Development**: Ongoing job/managerial training, learning events, professional certifications, career guidance – strong promote-from-within culture.
- **Veteran & military spouse support**: Active partnership with Hiring Our Heroes.
- **Work environment**: Open concept offices with collaboration zones, stocked snacks, and some locations offer fitness centers or game rooms. Comprehensive onboarding (“Be@Beyond”) with buddy system.

## Sources
1. [beyondfinance.com](https://www.beyondfinance.com/careers/) – Career page with benefits, culture, values
2. [beyondfinance.com](https://www.beyondfinance.com/careers/life/) – Life as a Beyond employee details
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/beyond-finance) – Company overview, founding year, headcount, offices
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/beyond-finance) – LinkedIn company page
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beyondfinance) – Active job listings (e.g., Technical Product Manager, Inside Sales)

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