Incident Response Manager

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe’s Incident Ops team seeks an experienced Incident Response Manager (IRM) to drive rapid, well-coordinated responses to outages and security events. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product, Policy and Execs to minimize user disruption and orchestrate RCA processes.

You’ll operate as on-call Incident Commander, lead cross-functional incident resolution, and help scale our 24/7 coverage while improving processes and tooling across the org.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of major incident experience for mission-critical SaaS environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple incidents concurrently with authority and influence responders.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Understanding of application development, architectures, and cloud environments.
• Experience with data analysis using SQL, Splunk or other tools.

Responsibilities

• Act as an on-call Incident Commander, driving incident resolution with urgency and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead all user-facing incidents across domains including reliability, security, and data privacy.
• Provide accurate situation reports and external communications to users during incidents.
• Update internal stakeholders and influence decisions with cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to root cause analysis and post-mortems to identify remediations.
• Drive improvements in incident handling processes and tooling based on data trends.
• Contribute to team culture through participation in processes and forums.

Skills

Incident response

Leadership

Analytical thinking

English communication

Tools

SQL

Splunk

Job description

About the team

The Incident Ops team is a global 24/7 team responsible for driving incident response and management from detection to resolution. the company is proud of its five 9s reliability and this team is at the frontier of ensuring we keep it that way - working hand-in-hand with Reliability Eng and across the Tech Org. This team of incident response managers (IRM) is defined by our sense of ownership and how we drive incidents to resolution - marshaling the necessary cross-functional resources to respond to and resolve service outages, critical bugs, security attacks and anything that significantly impacts the users of our products. The team is user-first and ensures appropriate external communications from the company and senior management to keep our users informed of disruption to their experience of the company. The team is skilled in communications, incident handling and technical adeptness as incidents can arise from anywhere and cut across products and orgs in the company.

What you’ll do

As an Incident Response Manager (IRM), you’ll play the key role in driving the right level of response from Stripes to incidents, determining impact, rallying Stripes to mitigate, communicating to users and ensuring appropriate remediations and orchestrate the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process. You’ll work hand-in-hand with IRMs and engineers globally to ensure solid 24/7 coverage on how we monitor, detect, respond, communicate and mitigate incidents. When not managing incidents, you'll help scale our ability to respond to incidents, improve our operations, analyze data to provide insights and deepen our technical expertise in products. As a result, you’ll be seen as the protector of our users - in minimizing the impact of incidents on their business and ensuring that the company is always thinking of our users.

Responsibilities

• Act as an on-call Incident Commander, responsible for driving and managing incident resolution with a high level of urgency, cross-functional collaboration, and accuracy, while partnering with a global and diverse set of teams, including Engineering, Product, Policy, Risks, PR, Legal, Execs, etc.

• Lead all user-facing incidents across domains at the company - including reliability, technical, security, and data privacy

• ""User First" approach to determine impact, providing accurate situation reports, facilitating comms bridges, and ensuring useful and timely external communications to users

• Proactively update internal stakeholders, make decisions through data and influence by partnering with Engineering, Sales, Support and other cross-functional teams

• Contribute to the root cause analysis process while conducting post-mortems, remediations identification, and ensure problem management tasks meet SLA and user expectations

• Drive improvements in the incident handling process and incident management metrics and tooling based on trends and data of the company's incidents in collaboration with engineering, product and operations teams

• Contribute to processes, projects, forums, or groups that impact and grow team culture positively

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrable major incident experience for organizations that run mission critical applications or always-on Saas environments.

• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple incidents concurrently with authority and influence responders with agency and reasoning skills to resolve ambiguous problems and drive to root cause.

• Intermediate understanding of application development, application architectures, and applications deployed in cloud environments

• Good understanding of infrastructure, including physical, virtual, and container-based compute platforms

• Demonstrated quantitative, and analytical skills in data manipulation using SQL, Splunk or other tools.

• Excellent task management skills, must be detail-oriented with ability to remain composed, methodical, and think fast in a high-pressured environment.

• Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues for internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

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• Domain expertise in classes of incidents such as technical, privacy, security or crisis with a strong desire to continuously learn about the company's products, technical issues and systems.

• Ability to review complex technical details regarding ongoing issues/events and convey the key details to senior stakeholders to facilitate real-time decision making.

• Experience with broad user-facing communications (e.g. status pages, tweets) and/or targeted communications (e.g. direct emails, support ticket responses).

• Familiarity operating or managing distributed architectures with the ability to correlate system behaviors based on known inter-dependencies.

• Demonstrated understanding of full stack development and support