Sentry•24 days ago
Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
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Sentry is looking for a Security Engineer with at least 2 years of experience to join their Detection & Response team in Toronto.
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The ideal candidate loves automation, thrives with autonomy on a small team, and has hands-on experience with alert triage, detection engineering, and IAM.
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You will work cross-functionally to protect a fast-moving engineering organization and handle complex cloud environments.
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Candidates lacking fundamental programming skills, cloud familiarity, or incident response experience should not apply.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems, including building agentic triage and orchestration automation.
- 2Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response across a breadth of incident types.
- 3Contribute to, maintain, and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems.
- 4Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats relevant to Sentry's complex application and cloud environment.
- 5Collaborate across teams to implement preventative controls, defense in depth, and high signal alerting practices.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
Security Engineering
Python
Incident Response(security incident response)
Identity and Access Management(IAM)
Detection Engineering(detection tuning)
AWS
Nice-to-Have Skills
No optional skills specified for this role.
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