Senior Security Engineer

Cohere · Toronto · CA$260K – CA$310K · Engineering

Posted 2026-09-23

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As a Senior Security Engineer you will:

- Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues

- Lead security operation functions – including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response – in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments

- Integrate security into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle

- Collaborate with product and development teams, driving the success of larger projects to ensure that software is built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed

- Driving and supporting bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing

- Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes, i.e: evaluate open-source vs vendor solutions

- Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies

- Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions

You may be a good fit if:

- 5+ years previous experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization

- You have an understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices across many fields of security

- You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to make informed decisions with little data

- You employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems

- You are able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions - help build solutions and able to review what tools are available

- You understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences

- You have a deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls

- You’re a hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls

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