Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response

Accountabilities:

• Serve as the incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity security events, providing structure, judgment, and clear decision-making under pressure.
• Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems that improve the speed and consistency of security triage, investigation, and containment.
• Establish appropriate safety controls, approval gates, auditability, and rollback mechanisms for automated and AI-assisted security actions while maintaining human oversight of high-impact decisions.
• Own security readiness programs, including tabletop exercises and incident gamedays, from scenario design and execution through debriefing and measurable improvements.
• Advance threat hunting and insider risk capabilities by identifying opportunities, defining priorities, and delivering initiatives that improve investigative depth and coverage.
• Own and deliver multi-quarter capability initiatives, including planning, sequencing, dependency management, and execution beyond standard sprint-based work.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership that strengthens engineering practices, investigative judgment, and incident response capabilities across the team.
• Partner with Security Operations, Product Security, Engineering, Privacy, and other stakeholders to address gaps identified through investigations, threat hunting, and simulations.
• Promote psychological safety and blameless learning through incident retrospectives, gamedays, and tabletop debriefs.
• Build reusable tooling, systems, and operating patterns that extend strong incident response practices across the broader security and engineering organization.

Requirements:

• Significant experience leading complex, high-severity security incidents across multiple environments, including experience serving as an incident commander or equivalent technical lead.
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI-assisted or agentic automation for security operations, including triage, investigation, or containment, with sound judgment around appropriate automation boundaries.
• Strong software engineering capabilities and experience building production-grade security tooling, automation, or systems rather than only operating existing security platforms.
• Proven experience owning a security program or capability roadmap end to end, including planning, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery across multiple quarters.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native, SaaS, and identity-driven attack techniques and corresponding incident response approaches.
• Experience designing and facilitating tabletop exercises, gamedays, or comparable security readiness programs and converting findings into concrete improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, decisions, and trade-offs to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers or otherwise elevating the technical and investigative capabilities of a security team.
• Ability to build scalable systems rather than relying primarily on repeated manual processes, with a thoughtful approach to applying AI and automation to improve security outcomes.
• Strong incident command skills, including the ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and maintain composure during high-pressure events.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex initiatives from strategy through execution, including defining priorities, navigating dependencies, and delivering against long-term maturity goals.
• Ability to operate as an independent technical partner to leadership and cross-functional teams while representing priorities, risks, and trade-offs effectively.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, open learning, and using incidents and failures to strengthen systems and practices.

Benefits:

• U.S.-based annual base salary of $192,000–$278,000.
• Immediate access to health and dental benefits.
• 401(k) program and other employee benefits.
• Equity grant.
• Eligibility for applicable incentive programs.
• Generous paid time off policy.
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
• Retirement matching program.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Peer-to-peer recognition program.
• Free access to the company's password management service.
• Remote-first work environment within the United States, with travel for in-person team, department, customer, or industry engagements as required.
• Professional growth opportunities in a fast-paced environment focused on security engineering, AI, incident response, and continuous learning.
• Accommodation support is available throughout the recruitment process.