Product Security Engineer North Security
Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.
About Cohere
Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.
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About the Role
You will review architecture, code, and security-sensitive changes; identify vulnerabilities and recurring design risks; threat model new capabilities; test suspected vulnerabilities; and support remediation. You will build secure defaults and automated controls, help engineers develop security expertise, and explain risk decisions to technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Software engineering fundamentals
- Python, Go, or TypeScript proficiency
- Security review or threat-modeling experience
- Application security knowledge
- Web application knowledge
- API knowledge
- OAuth/OIDC knowledge
- Cloud platform knowledge
- Container knowledge
- Kubernetes knowledge
- CI/CD knowledge
- Authorization knowledge
- Identity and delegation knowledge
- Data-boundary knowledge
Responsibilities
- Lead security reviews of architecture, code, and security-sensitive changes
- Evaluate risks in AI-powered products
- Threat model new capabilities and prioritize mitigations
- Investigate vulnerabilities and develop proofs of concept
- Build secure defaults, reusable controls, review requirements, and automated checks
- Document practical security guidance and pair with engineers
- Explain technical findings, business impact, and remediation options
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local-currency equivalent
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental-health budget
- RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme
- 100% parental-leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Annual enrichment benefits
- Education and learning stipend
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- Remote-office travel budget
- Annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home-office stipend