Apple
Sr Security Incident Response Engineer, AIS
$167K–$251K
Austin, Texas +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 5+ years in Information Security focused on Incident Response, Security Engineering, and/or Intrusion Detection, including significant hands-on response work.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree and/or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads complex security incident investigations from identification through containment and mitigation, while mentoring responders and building scalable incident-response capabilities.
What you'll do
- Own incidents end to end, including investigation, root-cause analysis, blast-radius assessment, containment, and remediation.
- Mentor responders and turn investigation findings into durable detections, queries, processes, and automations.
- Analyze telemetry at scale and advise stakeholders across Apple on incident response and security posture.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar degree and/or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive investigations, establish root cause, and apply remediation strategies.
- Experience mentoring and coaching other responders.
- Understanding of incident-response automation strategies, with a track record of implementing them; proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, and common attack vectors.
- Strong understanding of AI for innovating incident-response processes using controlled, replicable, and traceable strategies.
Pay
USD $166,600 to $250,700 base salary
AI focus
Apply AI to innovate incident-response processes through controlled, replicable, and traceable strategies.
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