Security Detection Developer

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, Canada's largest fintech company, and contribute to our mission of helping everyone achieve financial freedom. As a Security Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy high-fidelity detections, support security investigations, work with large datasets, and automate processes to maximize team efficiency. You will also participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to incident investigations. This role requires 5+ years of cybersecurity experience with a focus on threat detection, incident response, and SOC operations. We offer a competitive salary, top-tier health benefits, retirement savings matching, generous paid time off, professional development budget, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on threat detection, threat hunting, incident response and SOC operations
• Experience with Public Cloud, WAF and EDR, Python, Kubernetes
• Splunk SPL mastery is a must
• Great understanding of attacker tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs)
• Ability to effectively prioritize multiple detection plans based on evolving threats and input from threat intelligence
• Demonstrates good secure coding practices with version control systems like Github
• Has strong problem solving and communication skills
• Possesses excellent collaboration skills and the enthusiasm to operate in a multi-discipline environment
• Believes that honesty, transparency, and inclusivity are important when communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
• Eager to learn from the team and others

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy high-fidelity detections both in a SIEM and through custom development of security tools
• Support security event/alert investigation efforts, streamline workflows, and improve detection accuracy in response to evolving threats
• Work with large data - identify visibility gaps, gain insight, make decisions and test hypotheses
• Assist in management of our SIEM
• Automate where possible to maximize team efficiency
• Support incident investigations by conducting thorough analysis of logs and other data to identify root causes and scope and assess impact
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to high-priority alerts

Preferred Qualifications

• SQL, Datadog, GraphQL and other query languages are a plus
• Some experience with CTI tooling and processes

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
• We’re a remote-first team