Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote within Canada

Base salary: CAD 149,600–190,000 per year in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario; CAD 106,700–133,425 per year in other Canadian locations.

Company

hirify.global combines cyber insurance coverage with cybersecurity tools to help businesses prevent and manage digital risk.

What you will do

• Drive the Zero-Day Alert process from vulnerability triage through actionable policyholder notifications.
• Coordinate urgent outreach with Security Support, Underwriting, and Incident Response for severe or actively exploited vulnerabilities.
• Develop technology fingerprints, scanner detections, parsing scripts, and security findings that convert scan data into reliable risk signals.
• Maintain and expand a distributed honeypot network while analyzing telemetry for exploitation and emerging adversary techniques.
• Improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives using claims insights, external datasets, and vulnerability research.
• Publish security advisories, research, and briefings, and participate in the emergency notification on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in threat intelligence, vulnerability research, penetration testing, or defensive security engineering.
• Deep knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, web applications, and exploitation techniques such as RCE, authentication bypass, and edge-device vulnerabilities.
• Experience assessing new vulnerabilities under time pressure and translating findings into practical enterprise risk.
• Hands-on experience writing scanner detections, signatures, or parsing scripts using Python, regular expressions, and protocol fingerprints.
• Experience with honeypots, deception technology, internet-wide scanning, or large security datasets.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, excellent communication, and the ability to lead complex work independently.

Nice to have

• Experience with Censys, Shodan, BinaryEdge, or attack surface mapping.
• Reverse engineering, patch diffing, or proof-of-concept exploit verification experience.
• Familiarity with VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, or SCADA/ICS.
• Public security research, CVE credits, conference talks, or knowledge of cyber insurance and underwriting.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment for employees based in Canada.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
• Mental and physical health programs, including Headspace and Lumino.

Hiring process

• Interviewed candidates receive an application status update within 45 days of the final interview.
• AI-assisted tools support application organization and review, while final decisions are made by the recruiting team.