Senior Security Incident Response Developer

Role overview A senior incident response developer strengthens an organization’s ability to investigate, contain, and recover from security incidents. The work combines hands-on incident leadership with building repeatable response processes, automation, and detection improvements. You’ll also mentor teammates and coordinate with engineering and business functions during sensitive investigations.

Responsibilities - Lead incident investigations as incident commander, providing clear direction during high-pressure situations. - Turn recurring incident patterns into documented workflows, playbooks, and automation that improve response consistency and speed. - Work with engineering teams to strengthen response readiness and identify opportunities to automate routine tasks. - Partner with security engineers to maintain and improve SIEM and SOAR capabilities, and collaborate on high-fidelity detection rules. - Coordinate sensitive investigations with relevant teams, including cases involving suspected fraud, insider threats, or inappropriate access. - Mentor responders, help shape the response function, and report incident trends and metrics to inform investment decisions.

Requirements - At least five years of cybersecurity experience, including three or more years managing incident investigations. - Ability to lead teams calmly and make sound technical and cross-functional decisions under pressure. - Practical understanding of SIEM-based investigation and turning noisy data into useful signals. - Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and an ability to design repeatable workflows for automation. - Experience using AI coding tools to support scripting or operational automation. - Clear, transparent, and inclusive communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Benefits and work setup - Hybrid work in a team distributed across North America, with an option to work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year. - Health and life insurance, employer-matched group savings, 20 vacation days, four wellness days, and sick leave.