Senior Software Developer, Defensive Security

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

What your team does:

We are currently seeking a Senior Developer to join our rapidly growing Defensive Security team. The Application Security team is responsible for emulating real-world adversaries to proactively discover, exploit, and help remediate critical security vulnerabilities across our applications. We provide an essential adversarial perspective, challenging our defences and partnering with development teams to eliminate flaws before they can be abused.

This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada. If you are local to one of our hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto) you will be expected to be in office minimum two days per week for our Anchor Days.

What you’ll do:

• Bring strong, senior level development experience to the Application Security Team

• Develop and implement tools to help educate, reduce toil, and prevent security flaws

• Provide detailed guidance and support to teams in vulnerability remediation along with remediating vulnerabilities in core codebases

• Bring experience into Clio’s application security teams and advise on security best practices

What you may have:

• 5+ years experience with Ruby, Python, Javascript or other equivalent modern languages and tools

• Experience in secure software development; application security; and security tools development and implementation, especially in the CI/CD environment

• Experience in some combination of the following disciplines: cloud security, threat modelling, and architecture review

• A love for learning and developing creative security solutions for a fast growing, continuous integration environment that hits upwards of 50 deployments a day

• Contribute to growing security awareness and knowledge amongst the product organization

• Identify, improve, and implement tools for automated application scanning, static analysis, and custom tooling

• Elevate and educate our security culture within Clio, contributing to our cultural values of “Lead with Context” and “Get Better Every Day

• A keen interest in improving your craft using AI

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance

• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.

• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.

• $2000 annual counseling benefit

• RRSP matching and RESP contribution

• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

*Our salary bands are designed to reflect the range of skills and experience needed for the position and to allow room for growth at Clio. For experienced individuals, we typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers

We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.