Senior Application Security Engineer II

Relay • Toronto, ON

1d • CA$180,000 - CA$220,000

About The Position

Relay is a digital banking platform that gives self-made business owners the tools and know-how to be great with money—bringing clarity, confidence, and control to every dollar earned, so they can turn hard work into lasting success. We do this by replacing financial guesswork with real visibility, transforming cash flow from a constant source of stress into a clear signal owners can use to run stronger, more resilient businesses.
We’re looking for an Senior Application Security Engineer II who thrives on autonomy, curiosity, and impact. You'll join an Application Security team that is deliberately moving away from the advisory model most AppSec functions are stuck in. You’ll work across our stack (from TypeScript and Node.js, to Postgres and AWS cloud infrastructure) ensuring our applications are secure from design to deployment. You’ll blend technical depth with systems thinking, working across teams to identify risks, build guardrails, and evolve our security practices as Relay scales.
That coverage number is where you come in. Right now, most of Relay's platform has never been properly tested — and closing that gap is the single highest-leverage thing our team can do this year. Your mission is to own a defined slice of it end to end: testing the services in scope, working out what's actually exploitable, and fixing what you can yourself.
This is a role with room to grow. You'll be working next to senior engineers who are maintaining our auth system and building our DAST tooling from scratch. The Relay AppSec team genuinely enjoys Application Security and is looking to make an impact on the field.

Requirements

• 5 to 6 years of professional security experience. Application security, penetration testing, or product security engineering or similar roles.
• You've shipped production code: Production-level software real users depended on. And you can read an unfamiliar codebase well enough to fix something in it, which is most of this job.
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10 and real-world exploitation/mitigation techniques.
• You build with AI. You use AI tooling in your daily work and you've built something with it. You can talk about where it gets things wrong, not just that it's fast.
• Clear communicator & collaborator: you are a collaborator who loves to partner with developers to bring value to customers in the most secure way possible.
• Ownership: You have a sense of responsibility towards problems and take ownership over them making sure nothing is forgotten and stakeholders stay informed.
• Mentorship: You are comfortable mentoring team members and members of other teams on security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Threat model technical design documents (TDDs) and run white-box penetration tests on our testing environment to identify vulnerabilities from an attacker’s point of view.
• Triage researcher reports, reproduce/assess impact, coordinate fixes with owners, and close the loop with clear comms and durable controls.
• Contributing directly to Relay’s code base when it makes sense — writing the patch, not filing the ticket.
• Working in our security tooling and extending it: Datadog security, secrets scanning and logging, Burp Suite, and in-house tools you'll be expected to modify rather than just operate.
• Building with AI as a default: Claude Code and Cursor are daily drivers on this team, not a pilot program.
• Joining the team's rhythms: Two weekly standups, a biweekly security champions session with product engineers, and a weekly Hack The Box session.
• Enforce provenance: SBOM on every build, dependency pinning/owner verification, private registries/proxies, and runtime SCA detections.

Benefits

• We believe Relayers should feel rewarded for the impact they have on our mission and growth. Compensation follows impact. As impact increases, compensation grows, and we do not limit compensation changes to a once-a-year review cycle.
• For candidates who demonstrate full readiness for the defined scope of the role, the typical starting salary is $200,000 CAD.
• Offers below this point reflect candidates we believe can grow into the full scope of the role with support and development.
• Offers above this point reflect impact that meaningfully exceeds the role’s defined expectations or an expanded scope from day one.
• We encourage you to have a conversation with your recruiter and ask questions about compensation throughout the hiring process.
• For more information on our compensation philosophy and perks and benefits, visit our Candidate Hub.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed