Senior Security Operations Engineer, Incident Response

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About the role

  • Senior Security Operations Engineer driving security incident response efforts for Affirm's systems and customers. Collaborating with teams to improve security posture and build automated playbooks.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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).

Benefits

  • 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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$150,000 - CA$200,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudPythonSplunk

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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