Cybersecurity Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Localcoin, founded in 2017 with headquarters in Toronto, is on a mission to simplify the process and experience of buying or selling digital currencies globally. We envision bringing digital currency to the mainstream financial market through partnerships with leading corporate and franchised retail spaces. With terminals across Canada, Poland and the APAC region, including Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand, Localcoin is now the fastest growing Bitcoin ATM operator in the world.

🏢 About Localcoin

At its core, Localcoin believes that everyone should be able to own cryptocurrency and have a deep understanding of blockchain technology. As a member of our rapidly growing team, you'll join a talented, dynamic group of team members who will encourage you to learn, grow, and thrive in your career every step of the way.

We are a high-ownership engineering organization focused on building secure, resilient, and scalable systems in a rapidly evolving regulatory and threat landscape.

🎯 The Role

This is primarily an engineering role (roughly 80% engineering / 20% governance) focused on implementing scalable security solutions, improving visibility and detection capabilities, hardening infrastructure, and partnering closely with engineering teams to build secure systems by default.

You’ll work directly with the Director of Engineering and collaborate across platform, backend, infrastructure, compliance, and operations teams.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-autonomy environments, enjoys solving difficult infrastructure and security problems, and wants meaningful ownership in a fast-moving fintech/crypto company.

This position will be based out of our office in Etobicoke, ON, and will have a hybrid work schedule of 2 days a week.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and harden security infrastructure across our AWS-based cloud environment.
• Lead and coordinate security incident response efforts, including investigation, remediation, and postmortem analysis.
• Implement and manage SIEM, monitoring, alerting, and detection capabilities
• Partner with engineering teams to design and maintain secure systems and development practices.
• Develop automation and tooling to improve security operations and reduce manual processes.
• Evaluate and strengthen IAM policies, access controls, and cloud security configurations
• Manage external penetration testing engagements and remediation tracking
• Collaborate with vendors, auditors, and compliance stakeholders on security and regulatory initiatives.
• Contribute to policies, standards, and operational procedures aligned with evolving regulatory requirements.
• Assess the organization’s overall security posture and provide practical recommendations for improvement.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5 - 10 years of hands-on experience securing AWS and cloud-native infrastructure, including infrastructure hardening, IAM, networking, and cloud security best practices. 
• Deep understanding of networking, Linux systems, IAM, and infrastructure security principles.
• Experience managing penetration testing programs and remediation processes.
• Experience operating in fintech, cryptocurrency, or other regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of modern security threats, attack vectors, and defensive controls.
• Ability to write code, automation, or tooling to improve security operations.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Strong incident response and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in high-ownership, fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience implementing or operating SIEM platforms.
• Security automation and orchestration experience.
• Detection engineering experience.
• Experience with SAST/DAST tooling and workflows.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks such as FINTRAC, MiCA, DORA, PIPEDA, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2.
• Security certifications such as OSCP, CISSP, GIAC, Security+, or cloud security certifications.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Benefits – We value and reward our team members.
• RRSP Group Matching Program – We invest in your financial well-being.
• Hybrid Work Environment – Enjoy flexibility while being part of a dynamic team.
• Professional Development – Opportunities for learning and growth covered by Localcoin.
• Team Culture & Events – Regular socials, team meetings, and collaborative workspaces.
• Impactful Work – Play a key role in a growing company and make a real difference.
• Great Place to Work® Certified – Proudly recognized for our positive workplace culture and employee experience 2 years in a row. 

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada. At this time, we are not able to provide visa sponsorship.