Senior Security Engineer - AI-Driven FinTech (Remote)

Shakepay Inc.; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity benefits

Get paid in bitcoin

Remote friendly

Generous vacation

Insurance coverage

Personal development

Working from home

Self-sovereignty

Job summary

Shakepay Inc. seeks a Senior Security Engineer to safeguard our infrastructure, products and customer data while advancing our AI-driven security platform.

You will be a hands-on contributor across application, cloud, enterprise security and observability, partnering with engineering to embed secure delivery and scalable controls. This role emphasizes automation and AI-enabled security workflows, on-call incident response, and governance readiness for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline, with meaningful security work.
• Advanced, hands-on experience using AI tools, agents, and automation to increase the scale and effectiveness of security engineering.
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred) and fintech/regulatory contexts.
• Exposure to product security and influencing product design.
• Experience with AI-assisted security testing, vulnerability research, detection engineering, or security observability.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on contributor across security domains (application, product, infrastructure, enterprise, observability).
• Partner with engineering teams to embed security into development and delivery workflows.
• Build, tune, and automate security alerts, detections, observability, and response workflows using AI where scalable.
• Participate in and help lead incident response as part of on-call rotations.
• Support governance, compliance, and regulatory efforts (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, etc.).
• Mentor engineers and share security best practices across the organization.
• Help shape security priorities and technical direction with internal stakeholders and vendors.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security (AWS)

Incident response

Security testing & observability

AI tooling & automation

Fintech/regulatory knowledge

Git/GitHub collaboration

Tools

AWS

AI tools

Job description

Shakepay Inc. seeks a Senior Security Engineer to safeguard our infrastructure, products and customer data while advancing our AI-driven security platform.

You will be a hands-on contributor across application, cloud, enterprise security and observability, partnering with engineering to embed secure delivery and scalable controls. This role emphasizes automation and AI-enabled security workflows, on-call incident response, and governance readiness for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI.