Sr. Security Engineer - Incident Response (AI Security)

Location: Warsaw, Poland. The role supports global incident response operations from Poland, including collaboration across LATAM and Americas time zones.

Company

hirify.global develops technologies for securing, delivering, and operating applications, including BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud, WAAP, API security, DDoS protection, and bot defense.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end response for cyber and product security incidents, from preparation and detection through containment, recovery, customer impact assessment, and post-incident review.
• Manage cyber crises by defining workstreams, driving decisions, coordinating regional and cross-functional stakeholders, and maintaining executive visibility.
• Build incident response capabilities for AI-enabled applications, models, agents, inference traffic, AI gateways, APIs, and runtime data paths.
• Partner with AI engineering, product security, security research, and governance teams on AI incident classification, response procedures, customer notification inputs, and recovery frameworks.
• Improve response effectiveness through KPIs and KRIs, tabletop exercises, cyber simulations, observability, automation, and response orchestration.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud, identity, endpoint, application, API, Kubernetes, WAAP, DDoS, bot defense, threat hunting, vulnerability response, and digital investigations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience with strong expertise in incident response, security operations, threat hunting, vulnerability response, product security, or investigations.
• Experience leading complex incident response activities in SaaS, cloud, hybrid, multicloud, and customer-facing technology environments.
• Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques, incident management, executive communications, crisis coordination, workstream management, and stakeholder orchestration.
• Understanding of application delivery and security architectures, including load balancing, reverse proxy, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, bot defense, Kubernetes ingress, and public cloud security.
• Experience conducting AI and security investigations using cloud, identity, API gateway, application, agent/tool execution, EDR, SIEM, WAF/WAAP, DLP, vulnerability, threat intelligence, and network/edge logs.
• Ability to influence distributed teams without direct authority and support global operations from Poland across LATAM and Americas time zones.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with NIST, ISO, SOC, PCI, and GDPR requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within the hirify.global Office of the CISO and collaborate with security, engineering, SRE, product, legal, privacy, communications, customer support, and business stakeholders.
• Senior individual contributor role with technical leadership, mentoring, and influence across global teams.
• Focus on improving customer trust, product security resilience, AI incident readiness, and reducing manual response effort through automation.