Staff Security Engineer
About the Role
You will design and implement pragmatic security solutions across product and internal applications. You will conduct threat modeling for existing systems and new initiatives, embed security into development workflows, build and automate detections and response playbooks, and participate in incident response rotations. You will mentor engineers, lead technical security work, support compliance and regulatory efforts, and manage relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
Requirements
- 7+ years building and maintaining secure applications with 3+ years in a Security role
- Strong experience in Application Security and best practices
- Ability to build and automate tools and processes to scale security operations
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with incident response and on-call rotations
- Strong communication skills and clear sense of ownership
Responsibilities
- Design and drive security solutions across product and internal applications
- Conduct threat modeling for existing systems and new product initiatives
- Partner with engineering teams to embed security into development and delivery workflows
- Mentor engineers and share security best practices across the organization
- Build, tune, and automate security alerts, detections, and response workflows
- Participate in and help lead incident response as part of the on-call rotation
- Support governance, compliance, and regulatory efforts such as SOC 2 ISO 27001 and PCI
- Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and external security vendors
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- Health and dental coverage from day one including health and wellness spending accounts
- Remote-friendly work from anywhere in Canada with optional office access in Montreal and Toronto
- Annual $2,000 learning and development budget
- 20 days of vacation per year and $1,000 bonus for using all vacation
- Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- MacBook and $1,200 home office budget plus monthly home and internet stipend
- Option to receive salary in bitcoin
- Team and company offsites