236K–325K USD / year
Senior Manager, Security Incident Response
OperationsRemote — United States
Published on 2026-10-30
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About this role
Lead Affirm’s global security investigations and incident response program as the company expands internationally. Manage major incidents and a technical response team while building scalable readiness, tooling, and AI-supported investigation capabilities.
About the company
Affirm offers buy now, pay later financing that lets consumers split purchases into transparent installment payments at checkout. It partners with merchants to provide flexible credit options without late fees.
The team
Security Operations and Resilience Engineering (SOR) program
What you'll do
- Lead security incidents and investigations through containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review.
- Act as incident commander for major events and coordinate technical and cross-functional response teams.
- Guide root-cause analyses, validate fixes, and drive lasting corrective actions.
- Manage and develop the technical response team and strengthen incident command capabilities across regions.
- Build global response practices, including playbooks, exercises, on-call readiness, and postmortems.
- Improve response tooling, telemetry, detection, and automation, including safeguarded agentic AI workflows.
- Create executive dashboards and board-level reporting on incident metrics, risks, and remediation.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a related security field.
- Experience leading major incidents in technology-driven, cloud-native environments.
- Strong technical expertise in investigations, detection, root-cause analysis, incident response, or digital forensics.
- Experience managing and developing technical or engineering teams.
- Track record building scalable response practices and using security tooling such as SIEM, EDR, or SOAR.
- Strong communication skills, including executive and board-level reporting.
- Ability to make sound decisions amid ambiguity and drive investigations and improvements to completion.
- Sound judgment applying AI to security operations with appropriate human oversight and safeguards.
Nice to have
- Fintech or payments experience.
- Familiarity with using threat intelligence to inform response.
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Monthly tech and health and wellness stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan with a stock discount.