Senior Security Engineer, Cohere
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
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Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress that reaches everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years previous experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization
- You have an understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices across many fields of security
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to make informed decisions with little data
- You employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems
- You are able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions - help build solutions and able to review what tools are available
- You understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences
- You have a deep technical understanding of common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls
- You’re a hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls
- If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft
- Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products
- Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues
- Lead security operation functions – including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response – in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments
- Integrate security into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle
- Collaborate with product and development teams, driving the success of larger projects to ensure that software is built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed
- Driving and supporting bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing
- Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes, i.e: evaluate open-source vs vendor solutions
- Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies
- Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions
Our take
Many businesses are now faced with the challenge of adopting advanced AI safely and securely. While AI tools like ChatGPT are making headlines, companies (especially those in regulated industries such as banking, telecoms, or government services) worry about privacy, compliance, and control over their sensitive data. Cohere addresses these concerns by offering AI solutions that can be trained on a company's internal data and, importantly, run on their own infrastructure rather than relying on external cloud providers. And in a world where data breaches and regulatory scrutiny are constant threats, this focus on trust and security is key.
In a competitive landscape, dominated by giants like OpenAI, Google, and Elon Musk;'s xAI, Cohere is setting itself apart by targeting businesses exclusively. Its approach has earned it contracts with some big names, like Royal Bank of Canada, Fujitsu, LG, Oracle, and Dell. By focusing on reliability and enterprise adoption rather than viral consumer appeal, Cohere has carved out a strong niche for itself.
This isn't going unnoticed either, as the company recently raised $500M, boosting its valuation to $6.8B, and brought on board top talent from MEta and Uber to strengthen its leadership team. Alongside this, its doubled its annual recurring reveneu to $100M in 2025 and is aiming to hit $200M by year-end. With its North platform for AI agents and a lean cost structure compared with larger rivals, Cohere is very much ready for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
192% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Aug 2025
$500m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company 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 remote work 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
Company HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(Co-Founder & CEO)Aidan received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2024 and has served as Cohere's CEO since co-founding the company in 2019.
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