Senior Security Operations Engineer (AI)

Location: United States and Canada; onsite

Base salary: $215,000–$260,000 in California, New York, and Washington; $195,000–$235,000 in other US states; CA$280,000–CA$330,000 in Canada. Equity and, in Canada, commission may be offered.

Company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building foundation AI models and end-to-end products for real-world business applications.

What you will do

• Advise leadership and partner teams on business risks associated with security issues.
• Harden AWS, OCI, and GCP cloud-native environments with secure-by-default controls.
• Build infrastructure-as-code modules and reusable libraries that enable secure engineering at scale.
• Manage cloud IAM/RBAC and partner with IT on unified authentication and authorization.
• Deploy and operationalize SIEM, SOAR, domain monitoring, endpoint, and cloud security tooling.
• Respond to incidents, harden environments after incidents, monitor controls, support compliance remediation, and analyze security metrics.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SecOps, DevSecOps, cloud security, threat detection and response, or software development with a strong security engineering focus.
• Hands-on experience automating security controls and building scalable solutions instead of relying on manual processes.
• Experience managing GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI platforms and Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and SecOps workflows, including Git and Terraform, in cloud environments.
• Practical experience with infrastructure automation, network segmentation, system hardening, container and cloud security, or security observability.
• Experience with multiple programming languages, including Golang and/or Python.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make informed decisions with incomplete information, and adapt as requirements evolve.
• Constructive problem-solving approach and ability to make build-versus-buy trade-offs.
• Understanding of secure engineering practices and ability to explain problems and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, dental, and mental health benefits; RRSP matching, 401(k), and pension scheme.
• Six weeks of paid vacation, parental leave top-up for up to six months, and annual enrichment benefits.
• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent, education and learning stipend, and a $500 home office stipend.
• Office-based employees receive lunch, snacks, and community events; employees away from offices can use coworking support and travel budgets for other offices.
• Remote-friendly company with offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul, although this role is listed as onsite.

Hiring process

• Applicants may be screened and assessed with AI-enabled tools.
• Accommodation requests can be submitted through the provided accommodations request form.
• Legitimate roles are listed on Cohere’s careers page and LinkedIn; Cohere does not request payment or third-party services during hiring.