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Senior Security Engineer

Cohere· Security
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RemoteCA$260k - CA$310k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Security Engineer responsible for leading security operations, integrating security into the SDLC, and partnering with product and development teams to ensure secure delivery in a remote-friendly, globally distributed environment.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues
  • Lead security operation functions – including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response – in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments
  • Integrate security into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Collaborate with product and development teams, driving the success of larger projects to ensure that software is built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed
  • Driving and supporting bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing
  • Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes, i.e: evaluate open-source vs vendor solutions
  • Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies
  • Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions

Qualifications

  • 5+ years previous experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization
  • Understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices across many fields of security
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make informed decisions with little data
  • Flexible and constructive approach when solving problems
  • Ability to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions - help build solutions and able to review what tools are available
  • Understanding secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences
  • Deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls
  • Hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls

Skills

Required:Vulnerability managementSAST/DASTIncident responseSecurity tooling optimizationCommunication with non-technical audiences
Nice to have:Threat modeling

Benefits

  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
  • Annual enrichment benefits: arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite
  • $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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