Lead Engineer, Incident Response (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; in-office presence required two days per week

Salary: $295,000–$347,000 per year, plus potential carry, discretionary bonuses, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies across areas including AI, healthcare, crypto, fintech, enterprise software, consumer products, and games.

What you will do

• Set the detection and response roadmap, prioritize threats, and measure coverage, alert quality, and response effectiveness.
• Lead, coach, and develop security engineers while remaining hands-on with investigations and engineering projects.
• Lead major incidents from triage through containment, eradication, recovery, and postmortems, including vendor incidents.
• Design SIEM architecture, security log pipelines, detection-as-code, and visibility across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments.
• Run threat hunts and build brand protection capabilities against impersonation, fraudulent websites, and lookalike domains.
• Build AI-assisted response automation and coordinate incident communications with Security Engineering, IT, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and investing teams.

Requirements

• 9+ years of incident response or detection and response experience, including cloud incident response across AWS and GCP.
• Experience managing security engineers through coaching and performance management while remaining technically hands-on.
• Experience leading detection and response programs and high-stakes incidents across cloud, SaaS, identity, and endpoint environments.
• Strong detection engineering skills with SIEM query languages or rule formats such as KQL or Sigma, including testing and tuning.
• Experience with SIEM and security log pipelines, EDR, SOAR, forensic investigation, threat hunting, and security automation.
• Strong Python skills, knowledge of AI and agent-system limitations and risks, and the ability to communicate technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders.

Nice to have

• GCIH or an equivalent incident response certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan, vacation, and sick leave.
• Eligibility for the a16z carry program and discretionary bonus programs.
• Participation in the Security team's on-call rotation.
• Collaborative culture focused on long-term relationships, empathy, teamwork, and high-quality execution.