Senior Security Engineer

Summary

Join Shakepay, a company revolutionizing financial services in Canada, as a Senior Security Engineer. You will play a crucial role in protecting Shakepay's digital assets and customer data from cyber threats. This involves designing and implementing security measures, managing relationships with vendors, leading threat modeling discussions, and maintaining a Zero Trust environment. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of broad security experience, including expertise in cloud environments (AWS preferred) and proficiency in a high-level programming language. Shakepay offers competitive compensation, stock options, comprehensive health benefits, remote work options, a learning and development budget, generous time off, parental leave top-up, and a home office setup.

Requirements

• 5+ years of broad Security experience, including but not limited to; Enterprise & Operational Security, Incident Response, Offensive Security, GRC, and Product Security
• 5+ years experience in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language for building and maintaining our alerting capabilities and to automate Security tasks
• Clear sense ownership and exceptional communication skills to manage expectations, timing, scope, and priority of the work you’re responsible for
• Passion for scaling Security through simplicity and enabling a Security first culture
• Experience in a highly regulated environment (preferably a startup)
• Eligibility to work in Canada
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Work closely with across all of Shakepay to design and drive high impact solutions with the right balance between security, customer experience, and product growth
• Be a subject matter expert and mentor across multiple domains within security and provide impactful output that can be ingested by both operational and engineering focused teams
• Manage relationships, internally and externally, regarding Security processes, services, and vendors
• Lead threat modeling discussions for both existing production systems and systems in development
• Own maintaining and improving our Zero Trust environment
• Build, tune, and automate alert responses in code
• Participate in an on-call rotation and serve as the technical lead during incidents
• Participate in governance, compliance, and regulatory audits (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software development and ability to impact product directly
• Knowledge of the technology behind Bitcoin
• Experience with Git (GitHub preferred) for project and process management
• Cryptography knowledge

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Health benefits from day 1 : Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts
• Remote-friendly : Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
• Learning and development : A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth
• Time off : 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus
• Parental leave : Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks
• Home office setup : A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses
• Salary in bitcoin option : Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist
• Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person