Senior Manager of Security Incident Response, Affirm
$236-325k
Salary dependent on location. + Our employee stock purchase plan
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
Be an early applicant
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$236-325k
Salary dependent on location. + Our employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a related security field
- Proven ability to lead major security incidents and investigations in technology-driven, cloud-native environments, from detection and assessment through containment, remediation, and recovery
- Strong technical foundation in security operations, with depth in investigations, incident response, detection, root-cause analysis, and/or digital forensics across cloud and enterprise environments. Experience in fintech or payments, and familiarity with using threat intelligence to inform response, are nice to have
- Experience managing and developing technical or engineering teams, setting direction and priorities, coaching engineers, and guiding hands-on incident work alongside engineering improvements
- Track record of building scalable response capabilities through repeatable practices, on-call readiness, exercises, postmortems, operational measures, and security tooling such as SIEM, EDR, or SOAR
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including translating complex incidents, security metrics, and customer or business impact into clear executive updates and board-level reporting, and aligning cross-functional partners
- Demonstrated ability to independently move ambiguous work forward, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and drive investigations, remediation, and program improvements to completion with measurable results
- An AI-forward mindset and sound judgment in applying AI to security operations, including agentic investigation or automation workflows with human oversight and appropriate security, privacy, and operational safeguards
What the job involves
- The Security Operations and Resilience Engineering (SOR) program is the foundation of our prevention, detection, and response capabilities, helping safeguard Affirm’s assets and enterprise security ecosystem
- As part of our Security Team, you’ll join a group of passionate, highly skilled professionals redefining fintech security through collaboration, innovation, and a team-first mindset
- We’re seeking an experienced security leader to lead Affirm’s global security investigations and incident response program as we expand internationally
- This leader will guide complex investigations and incidents while building the operating practices, readiness, and technical capabilities needed to support consistent response across regions and scale with the business
- In this role, you’ll lead a technically deep, engineering-oriented team that manages major incidents and builds better response capabilities
- You’ll direct complex investigations while staying close to the technical work, bring structure to ambiguity, guide responders and executives through critical decisions, and turn incident findings into durable engineering improvements
- You’ll also help shape AI-enabled investigation workflows, including agentic approaches to evidence gathering, analysis, and coordination, with human oversight and clear security, privacy, and operational safeguards
- Lead security incidents and investigations across the full lifecycle, from initial assessment through containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review
- Serve as incident commander for major security events, set clear roles and decision paths, and coordinate large technical and cross-functional response groups through ambiguity
- Guide technical investigations and root-cause analyses with engineering teams, validate fixes, and drive durable corrective actions across the business
- Manage and develop a technical, engineering-oriented response team, set priorities, coach engineers, and build incident command depth and consistent execution across regions
- Set operating objectives and global readiness practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, exercises, on-call readiness, postmortems, and measures of response effectiveness
- Drive engineering improvements to response tooling, security telemetry, detection, and automation, including agentic AI workflows that support investigation and analysis with appropriate human oversight and security and privacy safeguards
- Translate complex security and incident metrics into actionable executive dashboards and board-level risk reporting, surfacing trends and remediation priorities that drive cross-functional action
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Serving over 21 million consumers and over 300,000 merchants, the company offers flexible payback options ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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