Senior Security Engineer

HackQuest; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HackQuest is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to enhance its security program. This fully remote role involves identifying and mitigating security risks, conducting assessments, and collaborating with engineering teams to secure systems strategically. Ideal candidates will have extensive security engineering experience, a proactive mindset, and excellent incident management skills, contributing to a security-driven culture.

Benefits

Unlimited paid time off

Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

Competitive salary and stock options

Top of the line equipment

$300 monthly budget for home office needs and professional development

401(k) program

Fully remote team and flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 6+ years of security engineering or software security experience.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages.
• Excellent Incident Management skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to secure coding practices and lead vulnerability management program.
• Collaborate on hardening systems and manage bug bounty programs.
• Support compliance and participate in incident management.

Skills

Incident Management

Cloud Security

Secure Coding Practices

Programming (Python, Golang, TypeScript)

Job description

Magic's security team is critical – it is responsible for safeguarding Magic’s tools and products. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to play a pivotal role in expanding our security program. The Senior Security Engineer will also work on some of the most challenging and high-visibility risks the company is facing. You will identify and mitigate security risks in our product and infrastructure, in addition to conducting security assessments, and assist with investigations. The ideal candidate will be an innovative self-starter, who is motivated by our mission and results-driven, and will be able to extract, assimilate, and correlate a wide variety of data in order to surface and disrupt threat actors across multiple spaces.

This is a fully remote position for US and Canada-based candidates.

You will

• Contribute to further securing our SDLC, to include secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, and regression tests.
• Lead and grow our vulnerability management program, which spans across our cloud infrastructure (AWS) and endpoint machines (macOS).
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to harden our frontend and backend systems (Next.js, Typescript, AWS, Python)
• Foster your extensive experience securing a cloud microservices platform like Kubernetes, including ingress/egress, and container communication.
• Manage our external bug bounty program and be able to technically contribute to mitigations.
• Support compliance standards like NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and GDPR.
• Build a security mindset across the organization by providing security guidance and best practices.
• Take a holistic approach towards security, ensuring coverage from code quality up and out to our edge services including Cloudflare and Vercel.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call and security incidents, acting as Incident Manager.

You have

• 6+ years of security engineering or software security experience in either frontend or backend environments.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python, Golang, or TypeScript.
• Excellent Incident Management skills to navigate and lead incidents adeptly to ensure platform uptime.

Bonus Points:

• Have previously built or managed a SIEM like OpenSearch or Splunk.
• Built out modular authentication flows including WebAuthn OAuth.
• Experience with Web3 protocol or smart contract security auditing.
• Fully remote team and flexible working hours
• Competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited paid time off
• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance
• 401(k) program
• Top of the line equipment
• $300 monthly budget for home office needs and professional development