Principal Security Engineer (Incident Response)

Location: Seattle, United States. U.S. citizenship is required to support FedRAMP authorization and government-regulated environments. Participation in a rotating 24/7 on-call escalation schedule is required.

Annual base pay: $182,200–$273,200.

Company

hirify.global develops technologies that help organizations create, secure, and operate applications, with a focus on cybersecurity, application delivery, and AI resilience.

What you will do

• Serve as Incident Commander for enterprise-wide, high-severity cyber and product security incidents from detection through post-incident review.
• Coordinate response workstreams across Engineering, SRE, Legal, Communications, and Executive Leadership.
• Own the global incident response roadmap, playbooks, severity matrix, governance standards, and executive metrics.
• Architect incident response frameworks for AI-enabled applications, LLMs, AI gateways, APIs, and model runtime data paths.
• Lead AI-assisted security operations, automated triage, response orchestration, and high-fidelity tabletop simulations.
• Prepare root-cause analyses, customer notifications, executive briefings, and regulatory audit materials while mentoring security engineers and incident responders.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.
• 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience in incident command, SOC leadership, threat hunting, product security, or digital forensics within large-scale SaaS or cloud environments.
• Advanced knowledge of application delivery architectures, load balancing, reverse proxies, WAF/WAAP, API gateways, DDoS mitigation, and Kubernetes ingress security.
• Experience investigating telemetry across AWS, Azure, GCP, SIEMs, EDR platforms, identity providers, and network or edge devices.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, API attack vectors, AI/LLM threats, FedRAMP, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS.
• Ability to lead high-stress incidents and influence senior engineering and executive stakeholders without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to improve incident response maturity across corporate, product, hybrid cloud, and AI environments.
• Work alongside Engineering, SRE, Legal, Communications, compliance, and executive stakeholders.
• Potential incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and employee benefits in addition to base pay.
• Participation in a rotating 24/7 escalation program for major security incidents.