Senior Security Incident Response Developer

The role

You will investigate complex security incidents and build scalable response processes. You will also develop playbooks, scripts, and automation to improve incident response capabilities.

What you will do

• Build relationships with Engineering teams, new playbooks and finding opportunities for automation
• Grow others in the art of Incident Response
• Play a key role in building and shaping the Security Incident Response team
• Take the role of Incident Commander to bring incidents to resolution
• Turn recurring incident types into repeatable workflows
• Help shape the direction of investment by informing the business of trends and relevant metrics
• Partner with Security Engineers to monitor, refine, and expand SIEM and SOAR platforms
• Coordinate with HR, Fraud and Privacy teams to investigate potential fraudulent and sensitive activity
• Participate in an on-call rotation for responding to security incidents, internal questions and operational support
• Partner with the detection engineering function to develop new, high-fidelity detection rules

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the Cybersecurity domain
• 3+ years experience being an Incident Manager, taking ownership of investigations
• Ability to lead a team during high-stress situations
• Understand how to turn noise into signals using a SIEM
• Proficiency with AI coding (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT etc)
• Knowledge of and familiarity with cloud infrastructure
• Believes that honesty, transparency, and inclusivity are important when communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrates good judgment under pressure both in terms of technical problem solving and collaborating cross functionally
• Eager to learn from the team and others

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days
• 4 wellness days
• unlimited sick and mental health days per year
• 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

About the company

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of financial products. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.