Senior Security Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Define cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures for Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering.
• Set the roadmap for high-impact cloud security work and lead cross-functional initiatives from scope through delivery.
• Mentor security and platform engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
• Own threat modeling for new cloud technologies, services, and engineering patterns.
• Develop secure-by-default architectures and IAM, RBAC, identity-provider, and least-privilege strategies across AWS and GCP.
• Design cloud-threat detections and SIEM rules and own detection coverage end to end.
• Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead, converting investigations into playbooks and preventative controls.
• Own CrowdStrike, Tenable, native cloud security services, and cloud vulnerability management workflows.
• Secure self-managed Kubernetes control planes, nodes, workloads, admission controls, runtime environments, and CI/CD supply chains.
• Set standards for Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and pipeline security.
• Establish patch management, base-image hardening, and version-management practices across containerized and VM-based environments.
• Lead security for large-scale distributed systems and self-managed data stores such as MongoDB.

Requirements

• Several years of production ownership of cloud security, including on-call responsibility.
• Hands-on AWS experience as the primary cloud, working GCP experience, and experience with self-managed Kubernetes.
• Ability to read and write Python and Terraform.
• Experience with secure architecture, threat modeling, detection engineering, incident response, cloud forensics, IAM, Kubernetes security, and vulnerability management.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, organization-wide security initiatives through technical depth, influence, mentorship, and standards-setting.

Benefits

• Canadian base salary is listed at CA$153,000–CA$240,500 per year; compensation may also include equity, though compensation figures are excluded from benefits.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
• Flexible paid time off and equal paid parental leave with family and fertility services.
• Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
• Hybrid ways of working and a curated in-office employee experience.
• Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
• Collaborative culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®.