Global Security Incident Response Leader — Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a senior security leader to head global investigations and incident response as we scale internationally. You will guide investigations, set playbooks, and drive durable engineering improvements with a hands-on, engineering-focused approach.

You’ll build AI-enabled workflows, manage a cross-functional response team, and translate complex security metrics into executive dashboards and board updates across regions, with a strong emphasis on security, privacy, and operational

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a related security field.
• Proven ability to lead major security incidents and investigations in technology-driven, cloud-native environments.
• Strong technical foundation in security operations, with depth in investigations, incident response, detection, root-cause analysis, and/or digital forensics.

Responsibilities

• Lead security incidents and investigations across the full lifecycle, from initial assessment through containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Serve as incident commander for major security events, set clear roles and decision paths, and coordinate large technical and cross-functional response groups through ambiguity.
• Guide technical investigations and root-cause analyses with engineering teams, validate fixes, and drive durable corrective actions across the business.
• Manage and develop a technical, engineering-oriented response team, set priorities, coach engineers, and build incident command depth and consistent execution across regions.
• Set operating objectives and global readiness practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, exercises, on-call readiness, postmortems, and measures of response effectiveness.
• Drive engineering improvements to response tooling, security telemetry, detection, and automation, including agentic AI workflows that support investigation and analysis with appropriate human oversight and security and privacy safeguards.
• Translate complex security and incident metrics into actionable executive dashboards and board-level risk reporting, surfacing trends and remediation priorities that drive cross-functional action.

Skills

IR leadership

Security operations

Cloud-native security

AI security workflows

Incident command

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Affirm is seeking a senior security leader to head global investigations and incident response as we scale internationally. You will guide investigations, set playbooks, and drive durable engineering improvements with a hands-on, engineering-focused approach.

You’ll build AI-enabled workflows, manage a cross-functional response team, and translate complex security metrics into executive dashboards and board updates across regions, with a strong emphasis on security, privacy, and operational