Security Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure Security)

Location: Remote from Canada or the United States. Availability is required during coordination hours, Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm Pacific Time.

Salary: US candidates: $172,279-$249,640 USD annually. Toronto and Vancouver candidates: $221,209-$256,433 CAD annually. Other Canadian locations: $206,461-$239,337 CAD annually. Equity and benefits are additional.

Company

Quora and Poe operate global knowledge-sharing and AI platforms, including a workspace where users run AI agents with shared context and tools.

What you will do

• Review cloud and compute architecture changes with engineering teams.
• Create threat models for cloud and compute platforms and identify security risks.
• Develop or adopt tools to monitor and harden cloud infrastructure and operating systems.
• Build security logging pipelines and intrusion-detection capabilities.
• Define security policies, monitor compliance, and guide remediation roadmaps.
• Develop automations for threat detection, incident containment, network access management, and incident triage.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering ability with expertise in at least one security domain.
• Hands-on AWS cloud security experience, including IAM, network segmentation, VPC design, monitoring, and logging.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, container security, POSIX capabilities, SECCOMP, LSM, OSQuery, or eBPF.
• Experience automating security practices and integrating SAST, DAST, or dependency scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Must be able to work remotely from Canada or the United States and attend Pacific Time coordination hours.

Nice to have

• Experience securing Kubernetes clusters or serverless architectures.
• Product security experience with web applications, APIs, OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, or SQL injection.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with a culture of transparency, experimentation, learning, and ownership.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Equity refreshers and a flexible equity program in eligible countries.
• Remote work reimbursement, paid time off, and employee assistance programs.
• Final candidates complete identity verification and a comprehensive background check.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• AI technology may assist with application sorting and interview-note recording, while hiring decisions are made by team members.
• Final candidates undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check before onboarding.