Lead Incident Security Responder

Black Duck; Calgary; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Duck Software, Inc. seeks a Lead Incident Security Responder to drive product security across our portfolio. You will lead architecture reviews, threat models, vulnerability triage, and customer-facing security work with the Security Operations team.

Expect autonomy, coordination with engineering, and mentoring junior staff. The role emphasizes hands-on security depth, SDLC improvements, and contributing to SOAR automations and runbooks while maintaining security content and vendor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 7–8 years in product security or security engineering with hands-on depth in multiple areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security projects and drive architecture reviews and threat models.
• Coordinate vulnerability triage and customer-facing security work with the Security Operations team.
• Maintain detection content, contribute to SOAR automations, and track projects in Jira.
• Mentor less experienced team members and provide clear, technical responses to inquiries.
• Support incident response activities and cross-team collaboration across product security.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Leadership / mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SAST

SCA

DAST

Secret scanning

CrowdStrike NG-SIEM

Sumo Logic

Jira

Job description

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Lead Incident Security Responder

Position Summary

The Lead Incident Security Responder drives applied product security work across Black Duck's portfolio, protecting our products and supporting the customer security inquiries that come into our Security Operations team. Operating with broad autonomy under general guidance, you lead portions of complex security projects, partner with the Director of Security Operations and the broader engineering organization, and serve as an informal technical resource for less experienced team members. The role requires hands-on product security depth combined with program coordination: delivering architecture reviews, threat models, vulnerability triage, and customer-facing security work, while also maintaining detection content, contributing to SOAR automations, and tracking projects through to measurable outcomes.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams building Black Duck SCA, Coverity, and adjacent products on architecture reviews, threat models, and security design feedback.
• Contribute to a measurable secure development lifecycle covering SCA, SAST, secret scanning (GitGuardian), dependency hygiene, and build pipeline security.
• Recommend systematic improvements when patterns emerge across the portfolio rather than relying on one-off fixes.
• Triage internally discovered and externally reported product vulnerabilities and help drive resolution with engineering teams.
• Coordinate vulnerability fixes with engineering and support customer-facing communications when needed.
• Help triage customer security questionnaires, audit requests, and ad hoc product security questions in close partnership with the Director of Security Operations.
• Draft technically accurate answers to customer security inquiries; gather evidence from engineering when needed.
• Join customer security calls as a subject matter expert when called upon and contribute to a growing knowledge base of reusable responses.
• Support detection engineering and incident response activities across the corporate environment, with a focus on issues that intersect with our products.
• Maintain and tune detection content in CrowdStrike NG-SIEM and Sumo Logic related to product security risks; help work escalations from our MDR provider (ReliaQuest).
• Contribute to SOAR automations and runbooks that reduce manual toil.
• Lead discrete workstreams within larger security initiatives or coordinate small project teams where appropriate.
• Track projects through Jira with clear milestones and concise status updates; provide technical input into vendor evaluations and POCs across the SecOps and AppSec stack.
• Act as an informal resource and mentor for less experienced team members on product security, secure development, and threat modeling.
• Explain difficult or sensitive technical information clearly to engineers, security peers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Document tribal knowledge into runbooks, SOPs, and onboarding materials.
• Other tasks and activities as assigned.

Required Education/Experience & Skills

• At least 7 - 8 years of applicable experience in product security, application security, or security engineering, with hands-on depth in at least two of the following: secure SDLC, threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, product incident response, or customer-facing product security work.
• Working knowledge of application security tooling (SCA, SAST, DAST, secret scanning) and the vulnerabilities they catch.
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) from a security perspective.
• Awareness of AI and LLM security risks such as prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently under general guidance and to lead workstreams or small project teams without formal direct-report authority.
• Practical use of AI and LLM tools to accelerate day-to-day security work (investigation, query drafting, secure code review, documentation), with sound judgment about when AI-generated output requires human validation before it is shared, shipped, or acted on.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical security topics to engineers, security peers, and non-technical stakeholders; calm and steady under incident, audit, or customer-escalation pressure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience contributing to a Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) or equivalent product vulnerability response process.
• Familiarity with vulnerability scoring (CVSS), embargo handling, and coordinated disclosure.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, GWAPT, GPEN, OSCP, OSWE, or cloud security equivalents are a plus.
• Experience supporting customer security questionnaires, RFPs, or third-party risk assessments.

Physical Requirements

General office environment and responsibilities requiring:

• Extensive use of the computer which involves viewing a monitor and keyboarding for most of the workday
• Placing and receiving phone calls
• Occasionally moving and lifting objects up to 20 pounds
• May require some travel as needed.

Pay Range: $100,000 CAD - $150,000 CAD

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.