Staff Security Engineer

Staff Security Engineer at Shopify

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.

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About You

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone.
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth.
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter).
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change.
• Bring critical thought and opinion.
• Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do.
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward.
• Work digital-first for your daily work.

Key skills/competency

• Cybersecurity
• Incident Response
• Detection Engineering
• Cloud Security (GCP)
• Endpoint Security
• AI Security
• Python
• Swift
• Threat Intelligence
• Risk Management