Principal Incident Responder

FluidStack
Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 330,000 - 380,000 annuallyFunction: Communications, PR & CommunitySkills: ["Extreme ownership","First principles thinking","Velocity","Proactive threat hunting","Clear incident reporting"]

Lead incident response end to end across corporate, cloud, and data center environments—driving detection, containment, eradication, and post-incident review. Build detection logic, response playbooks, and forensic tooling for high-value AI infrastructure where model weights are the primary targets. Investigate threats across cloud, endpoint, network, and physical systems, stand up the incident response program (severity models, on-call, escalation), and turn incidents into lasting security improvements.

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FluidStack
FluidStack
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Principal Incident Responder

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Job Summary

Lead incident response end to end across corporate, cloud, and data center environments—driving detection, containment, eradication, and post-incident review. Build detection logic, response playbooks, and forensic tooling for high-value AI infrastructure where model weights are the primary targets. Investigate threats across cloud, endpoint, network, and physical systems, stand up the incident response program (severity models, on-call, escalation), and turn incidents into lasting security improvements.
Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead incident response end to end across corporate, cloud, and data center environments from detection through post-incident review.
  • •Build detection logic, response playbooks, and forensic tooling for environments where model weights are the primary assets under threat.
  • •Run investigations correlating signals from cloud, endpoint, network, and physical systems into a single attack picture.
  • •Stand up the incident response function from the ground up, including severity models, on-call rotations, and escalation paths.
  • •Partner with security and IT teams to turn incidents into permanent improvements by closing gaps identified in investigations.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 330,000 - 380,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Have personally led major security incidents from first alert to resolution, making containment calls under pressure.
  • •Build detection logic and response playbooks that caught real intrusions.
  • •Run digital forensics across cloud, endpoint, and network evidence, reconstructing attacker actions.
  • •Stand up or substantially rebuild an incident response program rather than only operating inside someone else's.
  • •Write incident reports and postmortems clear enough for both engineers and executives to act on.
Experience:AICloud securityIncident responseDigital forensicsThreat hunting
Skills:Extreme ownershipFirst principles thinkingVelocityProactive threat huntingClear incident reporting
Tech Stack:AWSGCPSIEMSOARMalware analysisReverse engineering

Company Brief

FluidStack
Builds and deploys large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI labs, enterprises and governments, providing high-performance AI training and inference capacity and rapid data-center deployment services.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2017
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