Staff Security Operations Specialist, LeapSec

Role overview Own security operations and detection engineering for a cloud software environment, improving how threats are identified, investigated, and routed to the teams that can fix them. This hands-on staff individual contributor role combines incident response with building and evaluating AI agents that can handle routine security work while escalating judgment calls to people.

Responsibilities - Build an end-to-end workflow that collects security findings, enriches and correlates them, drafts investigations, and routes actionable results to the responsible teams with evidence and remediation guidance. - Set rules for what automated agents may close, recommend, or escalate, and evaluate their reliability while guarding against prompt injection and excessive permissions. - Reduce false positives and correct misprioritized findings at their source. - Develop detections as code, map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and lead incident response from initial triage through post-incident review. - Coordinate with developers to deliver fixes and manage the performance of an external detection partner.

Requirements - At least seven years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering, including recent hands-on work in cloud SaaS environments. - Experience validating ambiguous alerts, tuning detection tools, and making sound decisions with incomplete evidence. - A track record of working directly with developers to get security improvements shipped. - Experience building and deploying agent systems for security work, with evaluations that determine when their output can be trusted. - Understanding of agent security risks, including prompt injection, tool permissions, and credential handling. - Fluency with detection as code and a SIEM query language; practical knowledge of identity and cloud attack paths, ideally in Azure and Entra ID.

Nice to have Experience directing a managed detection provider, threat hunting, or forensics; working French is a plus.

Benefits and work setup Remote work is available, with access to an office in Montreal and twice-yearly in-person gatherings. Compensation includes a stated base salary range of CAD $125,000–$160,000, an annual bonus, long-term incentive plan, retirement contributions, family health coverage, telemedicine, wellness funding, and flexible vacation.