Security Incident Response Developer

🔥 19 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 CA$123.2k - CA$154k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛡️ Security Operations

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📋 Description

• Build relationships with Engineering teams to strengthen incident response capabilities • Write new playbooks and automate manual incident-response steps • Own investigations from triage through evidence collection, analysis, containment, and documentation • Act as Incident Commander for low- and medium-severity incidents • Support senior responders on high-severity incidents • Turn recurring incident types into repeatable workflows from design through tooling and closure • Report incident trends and metrics to inform team priorities • Monitor, refine, and expand SIEM and SOAR platforms with Security Engineers • Investigate potentially fraudulent and sensitive activity with HR, Fraud, and Privacy teams, including insider threats and snooping • Participate in an on-call rotation for security incidents, internal questions, and operational support • Develop high-fidelity detection rules with detection engineering based on incident trends and threat intelligence • Report to the Manager of Detection & Response

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity • 1–2+ years of hands-on incident response experience, owning investigations end to end • Ability to coordinate responders and stakeholders during an incident and know when to escalate • Experience using a SIEM to turn noise into signal, including writing queries and tuning alerts • Proficiency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT to build and maintain automation • Workflow mindset for breaking recurring problems into steps that tooling or AI can handle • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and how to investigate within it • Discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive information, including HR and insider-threat matters • Clear, honest, and inclusive communication with internal and external stakeholders • Good judgment under pressure in technical problem solving and cross-team work • Strong desire to learn from the team and others • Legal eligibility to work in Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business • 20 vacation days • 4 wellness days • Unlimited sick and mental health days per year (does not apply to certain roles) • Work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year (90 days away program; does not apply to certain roles) • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS • Equity compensation for permanent employees • AI-assisted interview recording and transcription, with opt-out available and no impact on candidacy

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