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Salary: CAD 170,000 - 230,000 / annual
Shakepay is a Canadian fintech company on a mission to help Canadians build wealth through Bitcoin. Founded in 2015, the company has grown to serve over 1.5 million users and now offers a suite of financial products including the Shakepay Card, direct deposit, bill payments, and Interac e-Transfer. Backed by $44M in venture funding and regulated as an investment dealer across all Canadian provinces and territories, Shakepay is building modern financial services infrastructure.
The Security team at Shakepay operates as a high-impact function supporting company-wide security responsibilities. The team spans application and product security, cloud and infrastructure security, enterprise security, security tooling, incident response, and emerging areas like AI security. They work closely with Engineering, Platform, Risk, Compliance, and Product teams to build pragmatic controls and scalable security capabilities in a regulated fintech environment.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical contributor across multiple security domains including application, product, infrastructure, enterprise, and observability. You'll partner closely with engineering teams to design and implement scalable security solutions that balance risk reduction, customer experience, and product growth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and drive security solutions across product, internal applications, infrastructure, enterprise systems, and observability
- Conduct threat modeling for existing systems and new product initiatives
- 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 and agents
- Participate in and help lead incident response as part of the on-call rotation
- 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 while building relationships with internal stakeholders and external security vendors
A core expectation is working in an AI-forward way. You'll use AI tools, agents, and automation to increase your reach and keep pace with the scope and scale of security work. You'll help level up the existing AI platform and apply AI to security engineering, observability, testing, detection, and response.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline, with meaningful experience working in security
- Strong technical depth in one or more security domains, with the ability to operate effectively across associated domains
- Advanced, hands-on experience using AI tools, agents, and automation to increase the scale and effectiveness of security engineering work
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with incident response and on-call rotations
- Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and a clear sense of ownership
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience working in fintech, crypto, or other regulated environments
- Exposure to product security and influencing product design
- Experience with AI-assisted security testing, offensive security, vulnerability research, detection engineering, or security observability
- Knowledge of Bitcoin and excitement to learn more
- Comfort using Git/GitHub for collaboration and process management
