Affirm
Senior Manager, Security Incident Response
$236K–$325K
Remote US +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote US
Remote Canada - Experience
- 10+ years in security operations, incident response, or a related security field.
About the job
Leads Affirm’s global security incident response and investigations program, managing major incidents and strengthening response capabilities across regions.
What you'll do
- Lead incidents and investigations through containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review; serve as incident commander for major events.
- Manage and develop the response team, and establish global readiness practices, including playbooks, exercises, on-call readiness, and postmortems.
- Improve response tooling, telemetry, detection, and automation; report incident metrics and risk to executives and the board.
What they ask for
- Proven experience leading major security incidents and investigations in technology-driven, cloud-native environments.
- Strong technical foundation in security operations, investigations, incident response, detection, root-cause analysis, and/or digital forensics.
- Experience managing and developing technical or engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable response capabilities and communicate complex incidents and metrics to executives and cross-functional partners.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech or payments.
- Familiarity with using threat intelligence to inform response.
Pay
$265,000 - $325,000 USD base salary; $236,000 - $296,000 USD base salary
Tools
SIEM, EDR, SOAR
AI focus
Shape AI-enabled and agentic workflows for evidence gathering, investigation, analysis, coordination, and automation, with human oversight and security, privacy, and operational safeguards.
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