Principal Incident Responder

Fluidstack

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in incident response or cybersecurity roles
  • Proven track record of leading major security incidents to resolution
  • Experience building detection logic and response playbooks
  • Strong background in digital forensics across various environments
  • Expertise in threat hunting and identifying previously unnoticed activities
  • Ability to write clear incident reports and postmortems for diverse audiences
  • Bonus: Experience protecting high-value targets against advanced threats

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end incident response across multiple environments
  • Develop detection logic and response playbooks for targeted assets
  • Conduct investigations correlating signals from various systems
  • Establish the incident response function from the ground up
  • Implement permanent improvements based on investigation findings

Benefits

  • Opportunity to define and build a key security function
  • Work in a cutting-edge technology environment
  • Collaborate with security and IT teams to enhance overall security posture
  • Engagement with high-stakes incidents impacting critical infrastructures
  • Flexibility to propose how your unique skills fit into the organization
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • - Lead incident response end to end across corporate, cloud, and data center environments, from detection and containment through eradication and post-incident review.
  • - Build the detection logic, response playbooks, and forensic tooling for an environment where the assets under threat are the most targeted model weights in technology.
  • - Run investigations across a threat surface measured in gigawatts, correlating signals from cloud, endpoint, network, and physical systems into a single picture of an attack.
  • - Stand up the incident response function from the ground up, defining severity models, on-call rotations, and the escalation path to leadership.
  • - Turn each incident into a permanent improvement by partnering with the security and IT teams to close the gaps your investigations surface.
What We're Looking For
  • **The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.**
  • - You've personally led major security incidents from first alert to resolution, making containment calls under pressure with the business watching.
  • - You've built detection logic and response playbooks that caught real intrusions, not just theoretical ones.
  • - You've run digital forensics across cloud, endpoint, and network evidence and reconstructed what an attacker actually did.
  • - You've stood up or substantially rebuilt an incident response program rather than only operating inside someone else's.
  • - You've hunted for threats proactively and found activity that existing tooling missed.
  • - You write incident reports and postmortems clear enough that both engineers and executives act on them.
  • - Bonus: Experience defending high-value targets such as AI labs, financial infrastructure, or critical infrastructure against nation-state threat models. Cloud-native forensics (AWS, GCP). Detection engineering and SIEM or SOAR tooling. Malware analysis or reverse engineering.


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