Security Engineer (Blue Team)

Location: Vancouver, Canada; office-centric hybrid schedule with in-office days on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Working from home on Wednesdays is generally available; Fridays depend on the work and partner teams.

Base salary: CAD $200,000–$240,000 per year, excluding additional compensation components such as equity and benefits.

Company

Asana develops a collaboration platform used by teams worldwide, combining human and AI collaboration.

What you will do

• Lead detection, analysis, and response across cloud and SaaS environments, identity providers, endpoints, and the software supply chain.
• Investigate and remediate incidents across AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, SaaS applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain detection-as-code infrastructure, SOAR automation, and tested, version-controlled response playbooks.
• Use and optimize security platforms including Panther, CrowdStrike, and other SIEM and endpoint security tools.
• Conduct threat hunting, operationalize threat intelligence, and perform digital forensics and root-cause analysis.
• Partner with engineering teams on secure configurations and deliver security operations and incident response training.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in threat detection, security operations, or incident response.
• Experience investigating incidents across cloud platforms, identity providers, and SaaS applications, including audit logging and IAM.
• Proficiency in Python for security scripting and automation, with experience using REST APIs, Git workflows, and pull-request-based code reviews.
• Hands-on experience with software supply chain threats, developer ecosystems such as npm and PyPI, build logs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience with SIEM platforms and EDR tools, including specialized knowledge of macOS endpoint security and telemetry.
• Knowledge of digital forensics, root-cause analysis, common attack techniques, TTPs, and MITRE ATT&CK.

Nice to have

• Experience with Bash, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-centric hybrid work model with flexibility varying by role and collaboration needs.
• Mental health, wellness, and fitness benefits.
• Career coaching and support.
• Inclusive family-building benefits.
• Long-term savings or retirement plans and in-office culinary options.