Senior Security Engineer

The role

The Senior Security Engineer will lead security operation functions including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response. You will integrate security into applications throughout the software development lifecycle and serve as a trusted advisor to leadership.

What you will do

• Serve as trusted advisor to team leadership and partner teams
• Lead security operation functions including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response
• Integrate security into applications throughout the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with product and development teams to ensure software is built and deployed securely
• Drive and support bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling
• Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes
• Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues

Required qualifications

• 5+ years previous experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization
• Understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make informed decisions with little data
• Able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions
• Understand secure engineering best practices
• Deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, countermeasures and compensating controls
• Hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls

Benefits

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
• Annual enrichment benefits for arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
• 6 weeks of paid vacation
• Budget for traveling to other offices if remote
• Annual company offsite
• Co-working benefit for those not near an office
• $500 home office stipend

About the company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products. It is a global technology company headquartered in Toronto.