Remote Senior Staff Security Engineer – Harden Systems

Far Coder; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity package

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

LiveKit is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join our remote team with work location in Canada. You will own security across the stack, from applications to infrastructure, and drive secure-by-default designs across teams.

The role emphasizes building, breaking, and hardening systems, with a hands-on approach to security engineering. You will lead threat modeling, secure code reviews, and tooling to prevent production issues while collaborating with engineers on AWS/GCP deployments and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on security engineering.
• Experience leading security engineering efforts across applications and infrastructure.
• Open to building, breaking, and hardening systems from first principles.

Responsibilities

• Own security across the stack—applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks in infrastructure and application codebases.
• Lead secure code reviews, architecture discussions, and threat modeling sessions.
• Build tooling and automations to prevent security issues before production.
• Harden authentication and access control across internal and external surfaces.
• Collaborate with engineers to design secure-by-default APIs, workflows, and deployments.
• Investigate vulnerabilities, respond to incidents, and manage disclosure processes when needed.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Vulnerability management

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Cloud security

Job description

LiveKit is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join our remote team with work location in Canada. You will own security across the stack, from applications to infrastructure, and drive secure-by-default designs across teams.

The role emphasizes building, breaking, and hardening systems, with a hands-on approach to security engineering. You will lead threat modeling, secure code reviews, and tooling to prevent production issues while collaborating with engineers on AWS/GCP deployments and