Staff Security Engineer
Shakepay
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloud
About the role
- Design and drive security solutions across product and internal applications
- Conduct threat modeling for existing systems and new product initiatives
- Partner with engineering teams to embed security into development and delivery workflows
- Mentor engineers and share security best practices across the organization
- Build, tune, and automate security alerts, detections, and response workflows
- Participate in and help lead incident response as part of the on-call rotation
- Support governance, compliance, and regulatory efforts (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, etc.)
- Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and external security vendors
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining secure applications with 3+ of those years in a Security role
- Strong experience in Application Security and best practices
- Ability to build and automate tools and processes to scale capacity across Security and Engineering
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with incident response and on-call rotations
- Strong communication skills and a clear sense of ownership.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- Health benefits from day 1
- Remote-friendly
- Learning and development
- Time off
- Parental leave
- Home office setup
- Salary in bitcoin option
- Team and company offsites:
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
application securitythreat modelingsecurity alertssecurity detectionsincident responseautomationcloud environmentssecurity best practices
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationownership
Certifications
SOC 2ISO 27001PCI