Who you are

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing security features

- Strong Python development skills with significant production experience

- Experience building or working with autonomous systems, AI agents, or intelligent automation

- Solid understanding of security principles including session management, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices

- Ability to think about security at multiple layers: application security, agent behavior security, and infrastructure security

- Comfortable working across the full stack and diving into unfamiliar codebases to understand and fix issues

- Thrive in fast-paced environments where you can adapt to evolving priorities

- Excited about the intersection of AI/ML and security engineering

- If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply

What the job involves

- The North Security team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to create autonomous systems that handle the complex, critical tasks security practitioners face every day

- As a Senior Software Engineer focused on agentic security, you'll build intelligent systems that empower security teams

- Build autonomous security agents that perform alert triage, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment

- Develop agent orchestration systems that help security practitioners automate repetitive security tasks





- Design and implement agent security controls to ensure our AI agents can safely interact with sensitive enterprise data

- Create the security infrastructure that allows agents to operate in high-trust environments with stringent deployment requirements

- Ship production-ready agent capabilities that run efficiently in resource-constrained environments

- Research and implement novel security patterns for AI agent systems, sometimes requiring custom solutions where standard libraries fall short

- Conduct security testing of both the agents you build and the platform that runs them

Benefits

- Six weeks’ paid vacation

- Equity / stock options
- RRSP, 401(k), and Pension Scheme contributions

- Coverage for 100% of your insurance premiums across health, dental, vision, and travel

- Additional coverage for accessing mental health providers/services

- Six months of fully paid parental leave, including adoption and surrogacy

- Financial support for egg freezing and IVF in Canada and the UK
- A monthly fitness and wellness allowance

- Globally dispersed company that supports a work from home culture
- A $2,000 annual education benefit for professional development
- A weekly stipend for meals when working remotely and catered lunch when working from one of our global offices
- A monthly arts and culture allowance
- A monthly quality time allowance

📌 Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Cohere
📍 Toronto