Senior Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response

Role description

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response to lead the technical response to Nscale's most serious cyber incidents and build the capabilities that make future responses faster, safer and more decisive.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response, you will lead the technical incident command, set investigation hypotheses and evidence priorities, direct workstreams, reconstruct attack paths, analyse persistence and root cause, and establish credible scope.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact, and you will be part of a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions.

Requirements

• 10+ years in incident response, security engineering, offensive security, detection engineering, vulnerability management or a closely related technical security role
• led the technical response to complex, high-severity incidents in cloud-scale, hybrid or globally distributed environments
• understand attacker behavior including credential and session theft, privilege escalation, persistence, lateral movement, command and control, defence evasion, data exfiltration and destructive activity
• investigated Linux and Windows hosts, cloud environments, identity systems, network activity and related security telemetry
• establish incident scope and make sound containment decisions from incomplete or conflicting evidence
• strong software engineering or scripting ability and have built reliable security tooling, integrations or automation
• turned offensive findings, incidents or vulnerability intelligence into durable detections, controls, remediation mechanisms and validation tests
• lead urgent remediation across teams without direct reporting lines and communicate technical conclusions, uncertainty and trade-offs to engineers, executives and other stakeholders

Benefits

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity)
• Flexible workplace with Human-First Flexibility
• Dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions
• Equal Opportunities Statement
• Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation