Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response
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JobgetherSecurity & IT
Based in United StatesFull-TimeStaff
SalaryU.S.-based annual base salary of $192,000–$278,000
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering
Requirements
- Significant experience leading complex, high-severity security incidents across multiple environments, including experience serving as an incident commander or equivalent technical lead.
- Hands-on experience designing and building AI-assisted or agentic automation for security operations.
- Strong software engineering capabilities and experience building production-grade security tooling, automation, or systems.
- Proven experience owning a security program or capability roadmap end to end, including planning, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery across multiple quarters.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native, SaaS, and identity-driven attack techniques and corresponding incident response approaches.
- Experience designing and facilitating tabletop exercises, gamedays, or comparable security readiness programs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for presenting technical risks to senior leaders.
- Experience mentoring engineers or elevating technical and investigative capabilities.
- Ability to build scalable systems rather than relying on manual processes.
- Strong incident command skills, including the ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex initiatives from strategy through execution.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity security events, providing structure, judgment, and clear decision-making under pressure.
- Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems that improve the speed and consistency of security triage, investigation, and containment.
- Establish appropriate safety controls, approval gates, auditability, and rollback mechanisms for automated and AI-assisted security actions while maintaining human oversight of high-impact decisions.
- Own security readiness programs, including tabletop exercises and incident gamedays, from scenario design and execution through debriefing and measurable improvements.
- Advance threat hunting and insider risk capabilities by identifying opportunities, defining priorities, and delivering initiatives that improve investigative depth and coverage.
- Own and deliver multi-quarter capability initiatives, including planning, sequencing, dependency management, and execution beyond standard sprint-based work.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership that strengthens engineering practices, investigative judgment, and incident response capabilities across the team.
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