Senior Security Engineer (Cloud Security)

Location: Vancouver, Canada — hybrid

Salary: CAD $130,000–$150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops Calico, an open-source and commercial network security and observability platform for Kubernetes clusters.

What you will do

• Own vulnerability management across the Calico portfolio, including security testing, triage, exploitability assessment, proof-of-concept development, CVE coordination, and remediation.
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for Calico Open Source, Calico Enterprise, and Calico Cloud.
• Drive product hardening, cloud infrastructure security, secure code review, SAST, and dependency scanning.
• Build internal security tooling, contribute to patches, and develop secure-by-default patterns and automated guardrails.
• Contribute to detection engineering and participate in Security Incident Response Team investigations and post-incident reviews.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve security through automation and developer enablement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience in product and/or cloud security.
• Experience with end-to-end vulnerability management, threat modeling, and security design reviews.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure using industry-standard tools such as Burp Suite.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud security across GCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Ability to code in Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including security advisories and customer-facing security artifacts.

Nice to have

• Software supply-chain security and securing hosts, databases, applications, microservices, or cloud architectures.
• Purple-team penetration testing, detection engineering, or experience with security platforms.
• Open-source security contributions, bug bounty participation, public CVE disclosures, or security research publications.
• OSCP, OSWE, CISSP, GIAC, or equivalent certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and flexible work environment based on respect, openness, and teamwork.
• Full health, vision, and dental benefits.
• Opportunity to work on security technology used across major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions.
• International team with offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver, Cork, and London.