Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer

Responsibilities

• Drive the Zero-Day Alert process from vulnerability triage to actionable policyholder notification.
• Coordinate urgent outreach with the Security Support Center, Underwriting, and Incident Response for high-severity or actively exploited vulnerabilities.
• Write and refine technology fingerprints, detection rules, scanner signatures, and security findings that turn scan data into reliable risk signals.
• Maintain and expand the distributed honeypot network and analyze telemetry for exploitation and emerging adversary techniques.
• Improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives using claims insights, external datasets, and vulnerability research.
• Publish advisories, research, and briefings that inform security decisions.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for emergency notifications.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in threat intelligence, vulnerability research, penetration testing, or defensive security engineering.
• Deep knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, web applications, and exploitation, including RCE, authentication bypass, and edge-device vulnerabilities.
• Experience assessing new vulnerabilities under time pressure and translating them into practical enterprise risk.
• Hands-on experience writing scanner detections, signatures, or parsing scripts using Python, regular expressions, or protocol fingerprints.
• Experience with honeypots, deception technology, internet-wide scanning, or other large security datasets.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• A record of clear documentation or public security writing and the judgment to lead complex work independently.
• Bonus qualifications include experience with Censys, Shodan, BinaryEdge, attack surface mapping, reverse engineering, patch diffing, proof-of-concept exploit verification, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, SCADA/ICS, public security research, CVE credits, conference talks, cyber insurance, underwriting, or risk aggregation modeling.

Benefits

• Remote-first work arrangement.
• Base salary ranges from $106,700/year to $190,000/year depending on Canadian geographic market.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible PTO.
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
• Mental and physical health wellness programs including Headspace and Lumino.
• Opportunity for advancement.