Staff Security Engineer

We are hiring staff security engineers who build impactful solutions fast. You will protect our company, our merchants and our data against any and all cyber risks. You will help Shopify maintain a high-trust operating environment by building tailored detection and response solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, build and ship security solutions that defend against cyber attacks and data exfiltration
- Champion cross-functional projects
- Respond to and lead incident response for critical security events
- Cut through complexity to focus on high-impact work that reduces real risk
- Partner with IT, legal, and business teams to mitigate threats and remediate for the long-term
- Communicate security risks and technical recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
QUALIFICATIONS
- Expertise in building great software in the security detection and response domain
- Broad expertise in endpoint security, enterprise IT security and cloud security
- Proven experience responding to cyber security incidents
- Active awareness of emerging threats and AI-enabled attack vectors including prompt injection, supply chain compromises and social engineering
- Experience building real AI solutions that deliver tangible value to security operations, not just novel experiments
- Proficiency in Python, Swift and GCP; with Cursor and other AI tools
- Excellent communication skills: you can distill complex security data into clear, actionable insights
- Brings senior-level judgment and operates with high autonomy, proactively identifying and driving work from ambiguity to outcomes