2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Define cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures for Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering.
- Set the roadmap for high-impact cloud security work and lead cross-functional initiatives from scope through delivery.
- Mentor security and platform engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
- Own threat modeling for new cloud technologies, services, and engineering patterns.
- Develop secure-by-default architectures and IAM, RBAC, identity-provider, and least-privilege strategies across AWS and GCP.
- Design cloud-threat detections and SIEM rules and own detection coverage end to end.
- Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead, converting investigations into playbooks and preventative controls.
- Own CrowdStrike, Tenable, native cloud security services, and cloud vulnerability management workflows.
- Secure self-managed Kubernetes control planes, nodes, workloads, admission controls, runtime environments, and CI/CD supply chains.
- Set standards for Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and pipeline security.
- Establish patch management, base-image hardening, and version-management practices across containerized and VM-based environments.
- Lead security for large-scale distributed systems and self-managed data stores such as MongoDB.
Requirements
- Several years of production ownership of cloud security, including on-call responsibility.
- Hands-on AWS experience as the primary cloud, working GCP experience, and experience with self-managed Kubernetes.
- Ability to read and write Python and Terraform.
- Experience with secure architecture, threat modeling, detection engineering, incident response, cloud forensics, IAM, Kubernetes security, and vulnerability management.
- Ability to lead ambiguous, organization-wide security initiatives through technical depth, influence, mentorship, and standards-setting.
Benefits
- Canadian base salary is listed at CA$153,000–CA$240,500 per year; compensation may also include equity, though compensation figures are excluded from benefits.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off and equal paid parental leave with family and fertility services.
- Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Hybrid ways of working and a curated in-office employee experience.
- Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
- Collaborative culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Braze
Braze builds a customer engagement platform used by marketing teams to orchestrate cross-channel messaging across mobile, email, web, and more. The company sells its software via SaaS subscriptions with analytics, segmentation, and journey orchestration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze is a public company (NASDAQ: BRZE) with global offices.