Senior Security Incident Response Developer

Wealthsimple; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in Canada is seeking an experienced Senior Incident Response Developer. This pivotal role involves enhancing the security response capabilities, mentoring others, and managing incidents effectively. Candidates should have extensive experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on incident response and automation. The company offers competitive salaries, health benefits, and a remote-first work culture, allowing employees to work from various locations across North America.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Retirement savings matching

20 vacation days and unlimited sick days

$1,500 for wellness and professional development

90 days of international work

Employee Resource Groups

Allocated Wellness Days

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity.
• 3+ years as Incident Manager with ownership of investigations.
• Ability to lead through high-stress situations.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen security incident response capabilities.
• Mentor team members in Incident Response.
• Build and shape Security Incident Response team.

Skills

Hands-on incident response

Team leadership during incidents

Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash)

Understanding of cloud infrastructure

Job description

Your career is an investment that grows over time!

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on security professional to join our Detection & Response team as a Senior Incident Response Developer. Reporting to the Manager of Detection & Response, this is a critical, technical role focused on strengthening our ability to respond to and recover from security threats. You will be a key player in investigating complex security incidents, building scalable response processes, and taking command when it matters most.

The ideal candidate has a deep, technical background in hands-on incident response and a keen eye for where automation can improve and scale our capabilities. You are a natural problem-solver who remains composed under pressure, a senior team member who enjoys mentoring others in the craft of incident response, and a builder who can create the playbooks, scripts, and processes needed to protect our company and our customers.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Help take our security incident response capabilities to the next level by building relationships with Engineering teams, new playbooks and finding opportunities for automation
• Grow others in the art of Incident Response to support the program and increase consistency in outcomes
• Play a key role in building and shaping the Security Incident Response team
• Take the role of Incident Commander to bring incidents to resolution
• Help shape the direction of investment by informing the business of trends and relevant metrics
• Partner with our Security Engineers to monitor, refine, and expand our SIEM and SOAR platforms
• Coordinate with the Fraud and Privacy teams to investigate potential fraudulent and sensitive activity
• Participate in an on-call rotation for responding to security incidents, internal questions and operational support
• Partner with the detection engineering function to develop new, high-fidelity detection rules based on incident trends and threat intelligence.

We’re looking for someone who:

• 5+ years of experience in the Cybersecurity domain
• 3+ years experience being an Incident Manager, taking ownership of investigations
• Ability to lead a team during high-stress situations, providing direction and support to team members.
• Understand how to turn noise into signals using a SIEM
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Bash to automate incident response playbooks and integrate security tools.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with cloud infrastructure
• Believes that honesty, transparency, and inclusivity are important when communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrates good judgment under pressure both in terms of technical problem solving and collaborating cross functionally
• Eager to learn from the team and others. We value making one another successful!

We're reviewing applications on a rolling basis and will be in touch with qualified candidates soon. Please note that our hiring process may slow down a bit during the holiday season and we may be in touch early in the new year.

Why Wealthsimple?

Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business

20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively

90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year

A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

Allocated number of Wellness Days that can be scheduled over the course of the year!

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.