Senior Security Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Security Engineer strengthening security and compliance for Roofr’s customer-focused CRM platform. Owning cloud defense, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure engineering practices.

Responsibilities

  • Report to the VP of Engineering and work closely with the CTO and DevOps as part of Roofr's security guild
  • Design and harden security infrastructure across cloud environments, including network segmentation, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, WAF, and EDR
  • Lead vulnerability management end to end, including assessments, authenticated scans, triage, prioritization, and remediation SLAs
  • Build and tune SIEM/SOAR detection content and alerting logic against real attack techniques
  • Act as incident commander for security incidents; contain, eradicate, perform forensics, and write post-incident reviews
  • Threat-model new features and infrastructure changes before release
  • Own IAM hygiene and cloud security posture across production AWS accounts
  • Write, enforce, and maintain security policies and standards
  • Own Roofr's compliance program, mapping controls to NIST CSF 2.0, SOC 2, and CCPA/CPRA, running audits, closing gaps, and maintaining evidence
  • Run tabletop exercises and incident playbook drills
  • Embed secure-by-design practices into engineering workflows and the SDLC

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, cybersecurity, or equivalent hands-on experience
  • 5-8+ years in security engineering, incident response, or related infrastructure roles, including time as the primary or senior responder on real incidents
  • Certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, GCIH, or CEH are a strong plus
  • Deep network security fundamentals, including firewalls, VPNs, routing/segmentation, network boundaries, TLS, and DNS
  • Hands-on AWS cloud security, including IAM policy design, VPC architecture, KMS/secrets management, and CloudTrail/GuardDuty or equivalent
  • Real incident response experience covering triage, containment, forensics, and root cause analysis
  • Working knowledge of SIEM/SOAR tooling and writing detection logic with Python/Bash
  • Fluent in NIST CSF 2.0, SOC 2, and CCPA/CPRA compliance frameworks
  • Comfortable reading and writing real application code
  • Experience using AI/LLM tooling for threat intelligence is a plus
  • Familiarity with GDPR is a plus
  • Experience with PHP/Laravel is a plus
  • Comfort around Postgres is helpful

Benefits

  • 1st week of employment is mandatory PTO
  • 1 Friday off per month
  • Company-wide paid shutdown for the week between Christmas and New Year’s
  • Flexible time off
  • 80% employer-paid benefits in the U.S.
  • 100% employer-paid premiums for Extended Healthcare and Dental in Canada
  • RRSP/401k match
  • Generous Parental Leave policy
  • Annual company retreat with team-building activities
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Home office setup stipend
  • Internet and phone allowance
  • Remote-first culture
  • Weekly Friday paydays
  • Equity
  • Significant growth opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudCyber SecurityDNSFirewallsLaravelPHPPostgresPythonSDLC

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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