Security Engineer, Detection & Response

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About the role

  • Security Engineer protecting Sentry’s developer application-monitoring platform. Building detection systems, investigating incidents, and operating IAM and preventative security controls.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems
  • Operate Sentry’s detection stack and contribute to agentic triage, security response, and orchestration automation
  • Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response across a breadth of incident types affecting Sentry and its customers
  • Contribute to, maintain, and operate identity and access management systems
  • Work across adjacent security domains including application security, infrastructure security, governance, and privacy
  • Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats relevant to Sentry
  • Partner with teams across the company to prevent and respond to security incidents
  • Prioritize preventative controls, defense in depth, and high-signal alerting practices

Requirements

  • 2+ years of industry experience in a detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering role
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience
  • Hands-on experience with alert triage, detection tuning and writing, detection-as-code, security log ingestion, investigations and security incident response, identity and access management (IAM), phishing response, user access reviews, and endpoint detection and response tooling
  • Programming experience in at least one language; Python preferred
  • Comfortable using agentic development workflows
  • Familiarity with distributed cloud technology including AWS, CI/CD, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
  • Experience with corporate security tools including SSO, SAML, and IAM
  • Experience with defensive security tooling including EDR, SIEM, CNAPP, and ZTNA
  • Collaborative approach to problem solving
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Ability to work in the Toronto office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays

Benefits

  • Incentive compensation
  • Equity grants
  • Paid time off
  • Group health insurance coverage
  • Hybrid work model with 3 days a week in office and 2 days working remotely
  • Reasonable accommodations for employees and candidates with disabilities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

CA$162,000 - CA$420,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTerraform

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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