Staff Security Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $225k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Shakepay

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Series A on 2022-01

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Insurance

Shakepay is a Canadian company that provides an easy and quick platform for buying, selling, and earning bitcoin and ethereum. It offers a user-friendly app where Canadians can set up accounts, perform transactions, and manage digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum in minutes. Shakepay is noted for its fast service, commission-free transactions, and cashback rewards, making it an attractive option for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The company ensures the security of digital assets by keeping them in secure offline storage backed by insurance. Shakepay operates under regulatory oversight as a Money Service Business licensed by FINTRAC and is registered in all Canadian provinces and territories as a Restricted Dealer.

📋 Description

• Design and drive security solutions across product, internal applications, infrastructure, enterprise systems, and observability • Conduct threat modeling for existing systems and new product initiatives • Partner with engineering teams to embed security into development and delivery workflows • Build, tune, and automate security alerts, detections, observability, and response workflows using AI and agents • Participate in and help lead incident response as part of the on-call rotation • Support governance, compliance, and regulatory efforts including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI • Mentor engineers and share security best practices across the organization • Shape security priorities and technical direction • Build relationships with internal stakeholders and external security vendors • Help safeguard Shakepay’s infrastructure, products, and customer data while advancing its AI platform, security capabilities, and observability

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline, with meaningful experience working in security • Strong technical depth in one or more security domains, with ability to operate across associated domains • Advanced, hands-on experience using AI tools, agents, and automation for security engineering • Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred) • Hands-on experience with incident response and on-call rotations • Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and ownership • Fluency in English is required • Bonus: experience in fintech, crypto, or other regulated environments • Bonus: exposure to product security and influencing product design • Bonus: AI-assisted security testing, offensive security, vulnerability research, detection engineering, or security observability • Bonus: knowledge of Bitcoin • Bonus: comfort using Git/GitHub

🏖️ Benefits

• Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation • Quarterly performance and salary assessments • Generous AI token budget • Health and dental coverage • Health and wellness spending accounts • Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto • $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training • 20 days of vacation per year • $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used • Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks • Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites • Equity • Performance-based pay increases • Paid time off