Senior IR Engineer - Remote, AI-Driven Detection

Block; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 217,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Block’s Detection and Response Team (DART) seeks an experienced incident response professional to lead complex security investigations across endpoints, cloud, and applications. You will coordinate cross-team containment, preserve evidence, and drive remediation with business impact as a trusted advisor to engineers, Legal, and executives.

The role requires 6+ years in incident response and forensic analysis, strong SQL/log-analysis skills, and hands-on scripting in Python.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience.
• Experience commanding major security incidents involving multiple teams and priorities.
• Strong knowledge of attacker behavior across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, or application security.
• Strong SQL/database understanding and log-analysis skills with practical programming or scripting ability (Python).
• Established AI-assisted workflow and actively develop AI-based systems for incident coordination and case management.
• Clear communication and sound judgement when working with technical teams, executives, and sensitive information.
• Engineering mindset with a track record of turning incident response lessons into lasting improvements.

Responsibilities

• Command complex, high-impact security incidents from initial assessment through containment, recovery, and closure.
• Investigate threats across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and application systems and drive containment and remediation with system owners, weighing urgency, evidence preservation, and business impact.
• Reconstruct timelines, preserve evidence, and determine the scope and impact of incidents.
• Coordinate containment and remediation with system owners while balancing urgency and business impact.
• Keep incident priorities, decisions, owners, and handoffs clear across teams and time zones.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive findings, uncertainty, and response decisions to technical teams and business partners.
• Write code, queries, and automation that accelerate evidence collection, analysis, and response.
• Partner with triage, detection, threat intelligence, and infrastructure teams to address missing telemetry, improve detections, and remove recurring manual work.
• Mentor responders and participate in the incident response on‑call rotation.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Identity security

Python scripting

AI-enabled workflows

Communication

Engineering mindset

Data analysis

Job description

Block’s Detection and Response Team (DART) seeks an experienced incident response professional to lead complex security investigations across endpoints, cloud, and applications. You will coordinate cross-team containment, preserve evidence, and drive remediation with business impact as a trusted advisor to engineers, Legal, and executives.

The role requires 6+ years in incident response and forensic analysis, strong SQL/log-analysis skills, and hands-on scripting in Python.