Staff Security Engineer (Security Operations)

Location: Canada; 225 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario. Toronto-area employees living within 65 km of the downtown headquarters collaborate in-office Monday through Thursday; remote-eligible roles may be based anywhere in Canada or the US as specified by the posting.

Salary: CAD 199,000–249,000 per year, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a Canadian healthcare experience platform helping health plans and health systems improve follow-through across healthcare journeys for more than 70 million people.

What you will do

• Lead security incidents and investigations from scoping through evidence review, containment, follow-up actions, and completion.
• Coordinate incident response with IT, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and other partners while maintaining clear records of decisions and handoffs.
• Hunt threats and investigate endpoint activity using detection and response platforms, then build and tune detections.
• Detect and respond to threats across cloud environments, identity systems, and applications, making containment decisions with incomplete information.
• Contribute to risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, security testing, technical standards, policies, and procedures.
• Coach and mentor engineers through documentation, reviews, walkthroughs, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on incident response experience, including leading incidents and investigations through completion.
• Strong endpoint detection and response, threat hunting, and investigation skills.
• Experience with cloud security, identity security, and application security, including detection and response in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated coaching, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing experience.
• Practical, responsible experience using AI tools to improve security work while maintaining accuracy and data privacy.
• Practical judgment in scoping incidents, evaluating evidence, and adapting conclusions as evidence changes.
• Strong organization and diligence with decisions, evidence, handoffs, and follow-through.
• Clear communication of complex ideas and ability to build alignment from engineers to leadership.
• Recent open-source work, side projects, research, or writing demonstrating continued growth in security, including work that cannot be shared publicly.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time individual contributor role with department-wide influence in an AI-native organization.
• Employees are expected to use AI in daily workflows, review outputs for accuracy and bias, and handle sensitive information responsibly.
• Remote-eligible roles can be based anywhere in Canada or the US as indicated in the posting; Toronto-area employees have regular in-office collaboration Monday through Thursday.
• Toronto-area employees receive 10 or 20 flexible remote days per quarter depending on distance from the office.
• Compensation excludes bonus, equity, and benefits and varies according to job-related skills and experience.

Hiring process

• A recruiter reviews applications and contacts aligned candidates to discuss goals and the team-specific interview process.
• Reference and background checks are conducted before joining; additional checks may apply to US candidates depending on the role.