Global Security Incident Response Leader (Remote-First)

Affirm, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 265,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an experienced security leader to head our global investigations and incident response program as we scale internationally.

You will guide major incidents, build repeatable response practices, and shape AI-enabled workflows with human oversight to ensure security and privacy safeguards. You’ll lead a technically deep, engineering-oriented team, set priorities, mentor engineers, and translate incident findings into durable engineering improvements while reporting to

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security operations or incident response.
• Proven ability to lead major security incidents and investigations across cloud-native environments.
• Strong technical foundation in investigations, detection, root-cause analysis, and digital forensics.

Responsibilities

• Lead security incidents across the full lifecycle from detection to postmortem.
• Act as incident commander for major events with clear roles and decision paths.
• Guide investigations with engineering teams and drive durable fixes across the business.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Leadership

Cloud security

Communication

Forensics

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an experienced security leader to head our global investigations and incident response program as we scale internationally.

You will guide major incidents, build repeatable response practices, and shape AI-enabled workflows with human oversight to ensure security and privacy safeguards. You’ll lead a technically deep, engineering-oriented team, set priorities, mentor engineers, and translate incident findings into durable engineering improvements while reporting to