Affirm
Senior Manager, Security Incident Response
Remote Canada +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote Canada
Remote US - Experience
- 10+ years in security operations, incident response, or a related security field.
About the job
Leads Affirm’s global security investigations and incident response program, directs major incidents, and builds scalable response capabilities across regions.
What you'll do
- Lead security incidents and investigations through containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review; serve as incident commander for major events.
- Manage and develop the technical response team, and establish global readiness practices such as playbooks, exercises, on-call readiness, and postmortems.
- Improve response tooling, telemetry, detection, and automation; report incident metrics and risks to executives and the board.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a related security field.
- Experience leading major security incidents and investigations in technology-driven, cloud-native environments.
- Technical foundation in security operations, including investigations, incident response, detection, root-cause analysis, and/or digital forensics.
- Experience managing and developing technical or engineering teams and building scalable response capabilities.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech or payments.
- Familiarity with using threat intelligence to inform response.
Pay
209,000 - 269,000 CAD base salary
Tools
SIEM, EDR, SOAR
AI focus
Shape AI-enabled investigation workflows, including agentic evidence gathering, analysis, coordination, and automation, with human oversight and security, privacy, and operational safeguards.
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