About the role

  • Senior Security Engineer at Wattpad implementing security controls for AWS cloud systems. Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure data protection and secure software practices.

Responsibilities

  • Designing, implementing, and monitoring security controls in our AWS cloud infrastructure to balance protection with scalability.
  • Influencing the technical direction of the Engineering & Data department by introducing secure development practices and threat modeling.
  • Acting as a force multiplier by building security automation workflows and "guardrails" that allow teams to ship code safely and quickly.
  • Directly solving complex security challenges, including incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities.
  • Assisting teams in implementing access management and compliance controls, compliance (SOC 2/ISO 27001), and risk governance.
  • Building and maturing our application security program, partnering with engineering teams to triage findings from our Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
  • Collaborating with engineers on implementing security best practices to help raise the security bar across the organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of work experience in SecOps, Cloud Security, DevSecOps, or similar security-focused role
  • AWS security expertise: Hands-on experience with Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, AWS WAF, and IAM policy management
  • SIEM experience highly desirable: Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms (query development, alert tuning, incident investigation)
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code security: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes (EKS preferred) including security hardening
  • Strong scripting and automation skills: Python, Bash, PowerShell
  • Experience securing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions strongly preferred)
  • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks
  • Understanding of enterprise and cloud network security architecture and controls
  • SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 compliance experience
  • Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity - ability to define and execute on loosely-scoped problems
  • Balanced communication style - proactive collaborator when needed, deep-focus engineer when required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

  • Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
  • Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
  • Your own health/wellness account to spend each year
  • RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
  • Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
  • Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
  • Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
  • Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$160,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudKubernetesPythonSplunkTerraform

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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