Fluidstack
Lead Incident Responder
$172K–$258K
San Francisco, CA +4 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 2, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Austin, TX
U.S. Remote
Seattle, WA
About the job
Leads the US incident response function, including incident command, 24/7 coverage, responder development, cross-functional communications, and remediation.
What you'll do
- Lead major incidents and own the US region’s 24/7 coverage model, on-call discipline, and response SLAs.
- Build and develop a team of senior responders; lead executive, legal, and customer communications during declared incidents.
- Coordinate incidents across cyber, physical, and OT environments; run post-incident reviews and drive remediation, including oversight of agentic triage.
What they ask for
- Led material incidents end to end as a senior incident commander in organizations facing sophisticated, well-resourced threat actors.
- Managed and grown a team of senior responders while participating in the on-call rotation.
- Designed or operated a 24/7 on-call program, including coverage, acknowledgement and response SLAs, and escalation chains.
- Made disclosure-grade decisions under regulatory and customer reporting timelines.
Nice to have
- Incident response spanning cyber, physical, and OT or ICS; experience in critical infrastructure, data centers, or 24/7 high-availability environments.
- Built or scaled an incident response team or on-call program from scratch; experience with regulated reporting regimes or agent-augmented IR.
Pay
$172K – $258K USD total compensation; equity offered
AI focus
Oversee an agentic triage layer, define escalation criteria, and use incident learnings to inform detection engineering and threat intelligence.
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