Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer

Location: Ottawa, ON or Toronto ON | Hybrid
Department: R&D - Cybersecurity
Reports To: Saurav Jha, Information Security & Technology Lead
Type: Permanent | Full-Time

At Solink, our mission is to safeguard what matters most . We provide businesses with the tools to know sooner and act faster by transforming video security into real‑time operational insights.

Our cloud‑based platform integrates seamlessly with your existing cameras and systems, turning them into intelligent sensors that detect and interpret key moments. This empowers teams to make data‑driven decisions, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency.

Trusted by over 30,000 locations across 32+ countries - including brands like McDonald’s and JYSK - Solink delivers clarity when it counts. Our solutions help businesses reduce shrink, optimize performance, and respond proactively to potential threats.

We’re growing rapidly, earning industry recognition, and scaling with purpose. We’ve been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, Business Intelligence Group, and as one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work. And we’re just getting started!

We’re looking for a seasoned Security Engineer who brings deep, hands‑on expertise across the security spectrum. Your primary focus will be Application Security and Vulnerability Management owning and maturing these disciplines as Solink continues to scale. But this isn’t a narrow role.

You’ll also be a key contributor to incident response, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and day‑to‑day security operations, stepping in wherever your expertise is needed most. You'll work closely with corporate and product/engineering teams, building the kind of collaborative relationships that make security a shared responsibility. Whether you’re embedding guardrails into CI/CD pipelines, helping triage a critical vulnerability, making recommendations on shift‑left developer practices, or advising an IT partner on endpoint hardening you bring calm and confident judgment and the technical depth to back it up.

This role reports to the Manager of Security and Compliance, under the Director of Cybersecurity. It’s a high‑autonomy position for someone who thrives on building, mentoring, and driving systemic improvement.

• Triage and coordinate remediation of vulnerabilities across SAST, SCA, DAST, CSPM, external reconnaissance, security advisories, and bug reports.

• Own the SAST, DAST, and SCA technical stack end‑to‑end including configuration, execution, triage, and reporting across Solink’s technology stack.

• Lead Solink’s shift‑left security program by embedding security guardrails, automated checks, and developer tooling into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines to identify issues early and drive adoption across teams.

• Leverage AI‑powered security tools and modern techniques for vulnerability discovery and triage, combining them with practical experience and traditional security tooling.

• Develop scalable practices, automation workflows, and documentation that raise the security bar across the organization.

• Participate in architecture reviews and threat modeling exercises, providing security and compliance guidance across product‑engineering and corporate systems.

• Conduct source code and white‑box security assessments, providing actionable recommendations to improve security posture.

• Support incident response activities, including investigation, containment, recovery, and post‑incident reviews.

• Contribute to threat hunting and red team exercises across AWS, Kubernetes, and other cloud environments.

• Support compliance initiatives, evidence collection, audit readiness, and the ongoing automation of compliance processes.

• Help teams adopt AI tools securely by contributing to AI threat modeling, implementing appropriate controls, and addressing emerging AI‑related risks.

• Partner with IT Services and corporate stakeholders on endpoint security, EDR, and broader security operations initiatives.

• Execute penetration tests for web, mobile, and API applications.

Must‑Have

• 8+ years of experience in…