Global Security Incident Response Lead

Affirm, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 265,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Tech spending stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a seasoned security leader to head global investigations and incident response as we scale internationally.

You will guide complex investigations, build operating practices, and scale technical capabilities across regions while ensuring security, privacy, and operational safeguards. You will lead a technically deep, engineering-oriented team handling major incidents, shaping AI-enabled investigation workflows, and delivering durable engineering improvements with executive

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security operations or incident response.
• Proven ability to lead major incidents in cloud-native environments.
• Strong foundation in investigations, forensics, and detection.
• Experience building scalable, repeatable response practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead security incidents and investigations across full lifecycle.
• Serve as incident commander for major security events.
• Guide investigations and root-cause analyses with engineering teams.
• Develop a technical response team and on-call readiness.
• Create playbooks, drills, postmortems, and dashboards.
• Improve tooling and AI-enabled workflows with safeguards.
• Translate metrics into executive dashboards and risk reporting.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Team management

Executive communication

AI in security

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Threat intel

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a seasoned security leader to head global investigations and incident response as we scale internationally.

You will guide complex investigations, build operating practices, and scale technical capabilities across regions while ensuring security, privacy, and operational safeguards. You will lead a technically deep, engineering-oriented team handling major incidents, shaping AI-enabled investigation workflows, and delivering durable engineering improvements with executive