Staff Incident Responder
FluidStackGPU Cloud company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Situational Awareness
Astro Capital (NY)
7GC & Co
Armyn Capital
Autopilot Management Company
Bare Metal Ventures
About the role
TL;DR
Lead incident response and build security programs for AI infrastructure.
- •Run material incidents as incident commander, coordinating across detection, response, physical security, data center operations, legal, communications, and customers.
- •Key Responsibilities Run material incidents as incident commander, coordinating across detection, response, physical security, data center operations, legal, communications, and customers.
- •Build the IR program: runbook standards, severity definitions, materiality methodology, evidence contracts, and post-incident review cadence.
- •Define the agent-human contract for response: escalation criteria, evidence packages required from agents, and human-verdict feedback into agent quality.
- •Design and operate the senior-IR on-call rotation (ack SLAs, escalation chain, fan-out logic) and remain an active senior incident commander inside it.
- •Analyze incident trends to surface systemic risks and recurring root causes, and turn learnings into runbook, detection, or program improvements.
- •Requirements You've been the incident commander on material security incidents, coordinating technical responders and business stakeholders under pressure.
- •You've built IR program foundations: runbooks, severity and materiality definitions, evidence handling, post-incident review.
- •You think in systems.
- •You turn incident patterns into durable fixes across runbooks, detections, and process.
- •You're fluent enough with agentic and LLM-assisted response to define how agents and human responders divide the work.
- •You operate calmly as the senior voice in the room when critical infrastructure is under attack.
Domain expertise
cybersecurity
Benefits & perks
Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity), Retirement or pension plan, Health, dental, and vision insurance, Generous PTO policy