Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response

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The role

The company is hiring a Staff Security Engineer for its Security Incident Response team. The role combines leading complex incidents with building AI-assisted response tooling and running readiness programs. Open to candidates in Canada and the US.

What you will do

  • Act as incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity events
  • Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems to triage, investigate and contain incidents
  • Set safety controls, approval gates, auditability and rollback for automated actions
  • Own readiness programs such as tabletop exercises and gamedays
  • Advance threat hunting and insider risk capabilities

What they ask for

  • Significant experience leading high-severity security incidents, as incident commander or equivalent lead
  • Experience building AI-assisted or agentic automation for security operations
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building production tooling
  • Experience owning a security capability roadmap end to end over multiple quarters
  • Understanding of cloud-native, SaaS and identity-driven attacks and response
  • Experience running tabletop exercises or gamedays
  • Strong written and verbal communication with senior leadership
  • Located in Canada or the US

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