Senior Security Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Security Engineer securing gaiia’s cloud-based telecom operating system. Protecting applications, infrastructure, customer data, and compliance programs across a serverless TypeScript platform.

Responsibilities

  • Protect gaiia’s products, infrastructure, customers, and teams through technical execution and pragmatic security leadership
  • Perform threat modelling and architecture reviews
  • Review authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, sensitive workflows, and secure-development standards
  • Run internal penetration tests and work with developers on issue remediation
  • Build and maintain a bug bounty program
  • Review AWS, Snowflake, GitHub, and other critical vendor configurations
  • Improve IAM, least privilege, and production access for employees and cloud resources
  • Review logging, detection, cloud-security monitoring, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines
  • Harden data stores, networks, backups, and encryption controls
  • Own vulnerability intake, prioritization, remediation SLAs, root-cause tracking, and corrective actions
  • Triage security alerts, coordinate investigations, maintain incident-response plans, and conduct exercises
  • Maintain policies, controls, evidence, and customer-facing security posture for SOC 2, GDPR, and PCI
  • Coordinate auditors and external assessments
  • Support Sales with security questionnaires and support the CTO in security-related sales and legal negotiations
  • Review vendors’ and subprocessors’ security controls
  • Build employee and engineering security training and establish security champions
  • Maintain a prioritized security roadmap and report material risks and progress to leadership
  • Participate in the long-term plan to build the security team
  • Report to the Platform Lead and work closely with the Platform Lead and CTO

Requirements

  • At least five (5) years of experience in Software Engineering, Application Security, Infrastructure Security, or a closely related technical role
  • Strong experience securing modern web applications, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
  • Strong experience with AWS
  • Strong experience with the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem
  • Experience with React
  • Experience working with microservices, serverless architectures, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and production systems
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management, IAM, logging, monitoring, and secure SDLC practices
  • Experience with penetration testing, bug bounty programs, SAST, dependency scanning, etc.
  • Stellar judgement and pragmatism when making and implementing critical business decisions
  • Rigorous, calm, and level-headed approach to incidents, ambiguity, and high-stakes situations
  • Impressive communication skills, with the ability to coach, influence, and enable teams without slowing them down unnecessarily
  • Ability to prioritize security work based on business impact, customer risk, operational urgency, and engineering feasibility
  • Experience reviewing product architecture, identifying practical security risks, and partnering with engineering teams to implement effective mitigations

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Stock Options Plan
  • Group Insurance
  • Telemedicine
  • Life and Health Spending Accounts
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
  • Flexible 25 days vacation
  • Flexible working hours
  • 100% remote / all-remote work
  • Accessible technologies and disability accommodations during the application process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$130,000 - $180,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptMicroservicesReactSDLCSnowflakeTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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