[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer @Cohere

Role Description

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.
• Drive and support 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years previous experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization.
• Understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices across many fields of security.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make informed decisions with little data.
• Employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems.
• Able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions - help build solutions and able to review what tools are available.
• Understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences.
• Deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls.
• Hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls.

Benefits

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
• Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!).
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

How and Where We Work

• Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.