Affirm
Sr. Security Operations Engineer, Incident Response
Remote Information Security role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Canada
Role overview
Sr. Security Operations Engineer, Incident Response
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Lead security incidents end-to-end, from detection and triage through containment, remediation, and post-incident review.
- Act as incident commander, driving clear decisions and alignment across teams during high-pressure situations.
- Conduct hands-on investigations across cloud and endpoint environments to determine root cause and impact.
- Partner with Observability & Automation to improve detections, reduce noise, and build automated response playbooks.
- Contribute to and refine incident response playbooks, runbooks, and documentation to improve readiness and consistency.
- Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams to identify gaps and strengthen the incident response lifecycle.
- Communicate effectively during incidents, providing clear updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- 5+ years of experience in Security Operations or Detection & Response, with strong hands-on incident response in cloud environments (AWS and EKS experience strongly preferred).
- Proven ability to lead security incidents, including containment and remediation, in fast-moving environments.
- Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize signals from multiple data sources.
- Experience with security tooling such as SIEM and EDR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or similar).
- Solid understanding of cloud security concepts and their application in real-world scenarios.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey information across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience building or improving automation for incident response workflows (e.g., scripting in Python; infrastructure-as-code is a plus).
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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