Senior Security Engineer

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products for real-world business problems. The Senior Security Engineer will lead security operations and integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle, partnering with engineering and product teams to secure cloud-native applications and automate security processes.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues
• Lead security operation functions – including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response – in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments
• Integrate security into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with product and development teams, driving the success of larger projects to ensure that software is built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed
• Driving and supporting bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing
• Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes, i.e: evaluate open-source vs vendor solutions
• Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies
• Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions

Requirements:

• 5+ years previous experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization
• You have an understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices across many fields of security
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to make informed decisions with little data
• You employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems
• You are able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions - help build solutions and able to review what tools are available
• You understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences
• You have a deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls
• You're a hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls