Senior Software Engineer, Security Engineering - Platform (Auth0)
Toronto · CAD 136,000-187,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Toronto
- Salary
- CAD 136,000-187,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- The Senior Software Engineer will join the Auth0 Security Engineering organization to build and manage services that secure the platform that Auth0 runs on.
- The role involves expanding platform security controls and architecting custom workflows in a scalable, reliable manner.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and operate platform security services and controls using Python, Node.js, or Golang.
- Build and contribute to security automation initiatives for custom tooling.
- Provide technical support and engineering solutions for securing Kubernetes (K8s) and containerized workloads, including runtime security, network policies, and admission controllers.
- Write clean, testable, and well-documented code while driving technical designs and participating in code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.
- Support remediation plans for vulnerabilities in partnership with Auth0 engineering teams, including development and commit of patches to remediate issues.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade software services.
- Hands-on mastery of Python, Node.js, or Golang.
- Expertise in using GitHub, and CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) from an architectural and engineering perspective.
- Expert-level proficiency in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and hands-on experience in the practical remediation of third-party and open-source dependency vulnerabilities at scale.
- Solid experience with cloud-native environments (AWS or Azure) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Practical experience building platform security controls, managing service permissions, and applying secure coding practices.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with high-throughput streaming platforms or log processing tools (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Vector).
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and Policy-as-Code tools.
- Familiarity with compliance standards (FedRAMP, SOC2) and security frameworks in multi-cloud environments.
- Experience or interest in applying AI/ML tools to automate security workflows and analysis.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- RRSP with a match
- Healthcare spending
- Telemedicine
- Paid leave (including PTO)
- Parental leave
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace model.
Skills
- Python
- Node.js
- Golang
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Kinesis
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- Pub/Sub
- Vector
- Terraform
