Careers at Tetrel

Here at Tetrel Security, we help the world’s leading companies with evolving cybersecurity challenges. Our diverse client base spans from multinationals to local start-ups, each facing unique threats but all pursuing the common goal of strengthened security posture.

As a Security Consultant at Tetrel, you will get firsthand experience with products under development at organizations large and small. This can include design review of new systems, security testing of existing applications, devices, firmware, evaluation of privacy controls, and much more. You will work closely with industry veteran staff to conduct testing and analysis of client source code, binaries, and systems to determine the presence of flaws and vulnerabilities.

Key Responsibilities

You will be testing and analyzing client source code, binaries and systems to find flaws and vulnerabilities. This involves:

Working closely in a team of consultants to deliver projects and client engagements
Writing clear and concise communication on your methodology, findings, and recommendations to clients and their C-suites
Assisting in identification, resolution, and documentation of security incidents

Essential Qualifications

Professional

Exceptional attention to detail, organizational, and communications skills (written and spoken)
Demonstrated passion for learning with a proclivity to self-start/self-teach in an open-ended environment
Highly collaborative, keen to share knowledge and insights with your peers and clients

Technical

BSc / MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related degree, or equivalent industry experience
1+ year of practical Computer security experience in at least one of the following: embedded systems development or testing, application security, web services, operating system security, privacy, network security, or malicious application analysis
Fluent in at least one high-level programming language (ideally C/C++ or Rust, but Go, Python, and others are also valuable)

Bonus Qualifications (Desirable)

Ability to quickly develop a mental threat model for systems and articulate attack surface impacts
Strong business empathy to understand clients’ needs and apply good technical intuition on unfamiliar codebases
Embedded systems knowledge (either building them, or breaking them) including both hardware and firmware
Strong networking and associated protocol knowledge and experience
Experience in mobile security: Android and/or iOS configuration and AppSec
Low-level (firmware/driver) development experience
Software development or programming/scripting abilities
Applied cryptography, mathematics or computer science experience
Application security threat modelling
Source code review in C/C++, Rust, Go Python, Java/Kotlin
Reverse engineering
Automated code analysis – fuzzing and SAST
Cloud Service testing (AWS / Azure / GCP)

Location and Compensation

We are a fully remote company without a permanent office, but we do like to get together physically on occasion. We are mostly in Ontario, but have people in other Canadian locations as well
Compensation is competitive and includes full-health coverage, RRSP matching, HSA, and bonus plan
The position requires occasional travel

Join us!

Please forward a note expressing your desire to join Tetrel by filling in the form below.

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