Senior Security Engineer

Later•Vancouver, BC

3d•$125,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Later is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen the company-wide security posture through hands-on engineering, collaboration, and pragmatic standards. The role combines security expertise with software engineering, covering application, cloud, infrastructure, corporate systems, business operations, secure development, vulnerability management, and compliance enablement. The engineer will work with teams across Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, IT, Legal, People, Finance, and other business functions to embed security into systems, tools, workflows, and operating practices. A core focus is maturing security capabilities in support of SOC 2 and other compliance expectations through practical controls, automation, evidence-ready processes, and clear guidance. The position is suited to a senior practitioner who approaches problems defensively, builds software, and leads through influence across technical and non-technical teams. The role involves assessing and improving security across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, corporate systems, vendor tools, and business workflows; implementing scalable standards and controls; and translating compliance requirements into sustainable technical and operational practices. It also includes building security tools and automation, integrating security into CI/CD, supporting application security and vulnerability remediation, improving infrastructure and corporate-system security, and strengthening observability and incident response. Later has offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Vancouver, Washington. For select positions, it considers fully remote candidates. The posting identifies locations where successful candidates may be based but does not specify the workplace type for this position.

Requirements

5–7+ years of experience as a Security Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong security focus.
Proven ability to build and operate production-quality software, automation, and internal tooling.
Strong understanding of application security, infrastructure security, cloud security, secure CI/CD practices, and corporate security controls.
Hands-on experience with vulnerability management, secure software development, threat modeling, remediation workflows, and operational security improvements.
Experience with security frameworks and standards such as OWASP, NIST, CIS Controls, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and the ability to apply them in production and business environments.
Experience supporting SOC 2 compliance through practical, automated, and auditable controls.
Familiarity with cloud security platforms such as AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, or GCP Security Command Center.
Experience with SIEM/SOAR tools, logging and monitoring platforms, detection workflows, and practical incident response processes.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning for tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Ability to translate complex security concepts into clear, actionable guidance for technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience collaborating with engineering, IT, compliance, and business teams to improve security outcomes.
Familiarity with C#, modern backend systems, cloud-native architecture, and SaaS business tooling.

Responsibilities

Assess and continuously improve Later's security posture across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, corporate systems, vendor tooling, and business workflows.
Define and implement scalable security standards, best practices, and guardrails that support SOC 2 readiness with practical, automated, and auditable solutions.
Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Product, Legal, People, Finance, and business leaders to align security priorities with company goals, risk reduction, and delivery timelines.
Translate SOC 2 and related compliance requirements into sustainable technical and operational controls, procedures, and evidence-collection practices.
Identify security gaps, prioritize remediation, and help teams make pragmatic, risk-based decisions.
Support security awareness, secure operating practices, and adoption of controls across business teams.
Build and maintain internal security tools, automation, and services for secure development, compliance workflows, vulnerability management, corporate security operations, and operational visibility.
Implement security controls in CI/CD pipelines, including secure build and deploy patterns, security scanning, dependency management, container scanning, and secret management.
Support application security through secure design reviews, threat modeling, code review guidance, API security, microservices security patterns, and remediation planning.
Improve cloud infrastructure and corporate systems security through hardening, monitoring, configuration review, Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning, access reviews, and secure operational patterns.
Collaborate with technical and business teams to identify vulnerabilities and control gaps, explain their impact, and drive remediation.
Strengthen security observability and response readiness through logging, alerting, detection engineering, incident response improvements, and security-process maturity.
Provide pragmatic security guidance on designs, implementations, vendor tools, operational practices, and business workflows.
Communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Embed security in development workflows, corporate systems, and company operating practices while avoiding unnecessary slowdowns.
Support SOC 2 and related compliance through automation, well-defined controls, reliable evidence practices, and cross-functional coordination.