Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Security engineer responsible for detection engineering, investigations, incident response, identity and access management, and preventative security controls across corporate and production environments. Requires 2+ years of security engineering experience, programming ability, and familiarity with cloud and defensive security tooling.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems, including detection-stack operations and automated security-response orchestration.
- Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response across corporate and production environments.
- Contribute to, maintain, and operate identity and access management systems.
- Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats relevant to Sentry’s application, cloud, agentic product, and AI-assisted engineering environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally on preventative controls, defense in depth, alert quality, and adjacent security initiatives spanning application security, infrastructure security, governance, and privacy.
Requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience in detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience.
- Hands-on experience with several of the following: alert triage, detection tuning and writing, detection-as-code, security log ingestion, investigations, security incident response, identity and access management, phishing response, user access reviews, and endpoint detection and response tooling.
- Programming experience in at least one language, preferably Python, and comfort with agentic development workflows.
- Familiarity with distributed cloud technologies and corporate and defensive security tooling.
- Strong written and verbal communication and a collaborative approach to problem solving.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with AWS, CI/CD, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, SSO, SAML, IAM, EDR, SIEM, CNAPP, or ZTNA.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $162,000–$420,000 CAD.
- Eligible for incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage.
Skills
Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Identity And Access Management, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, SIEM, Edr, SAML, CI/CD, Security Log Ingestion
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