Remote Incident Response Engineer Jobs
Remote incident response engineer jobs are open across cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare technology, and cloud infrastructure, with hiring concentrated at remote-first security firms, managed detection and response providers, and distributed enterprise security teams. Roles range from entry-level SOC-adjacent positions to senior and staff-level incident commander roles. Employers hiring remotely right now include CrowdStrike, Check Point Software Technologies, and ServiceNow. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Security - San Francisco and US - Remote
About the team
Ensuring that advanced AI benefits humanity requires protecting the research, infrastructure, and trust that make its development and deployment possible. OpenAI Security defends our model IP, people, products, and users against sophisticated adversaries across GPU supercomputing, multicloud environments, datacenters, and emerging agent systems. The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) leads the response when those defenses are tested—establishing what happened, limiting harm, and strengthening our ability to protect frontier AI.
About the role
We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to build the incident response team that protects OpenAI as AI capabilities and the threats surrounding them evolve. You will command consequential incidents, lead technically demanding investigations, and make containment and recovery decisions when evidence is incomplete and the stakes are high. You will also shape how frontier models change incident response: using OpenAI’s own technology to help responders connect evidence, test hypotheses, and act effectively at a scale that manual workflows cannot support. Partnering with Research, Infrastructure, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering, you will build exceptional responders, dependable AI-powered capabilities, and stronger defenses through every investigation.
In this role, you will:
Hire, coach, and develop exceptional incident responders who combine investigative depth, engineering ability, and sound judgment. Build a team that challenges assumptions, surfaces uncertainty early, and uses AI to expand its capabilities. Develop technical leaders who can make and explain difficult decisions under pressure.
Lead incident command for complex threats to OpenAI’s research, products, and infrastructure. Establish severity and scope, coordinate investigation workstreams, and weigh containment options against ongoing exposure and disruption to research or production.
Build and ship agentic capabilities using OpenAI’s models for evidence collection engineers to integrate tools and data, evaluate accuracy and failure modes, and ensure reliable, auditable operation with human approval for consequential actions.
Set investigation standards for sophisticated adversaries and insider threats across identity, endpoints, cloud, Kubernetes, and large-scale compute. Help responders reconstruct activity, test competing hypotheses, preserve evidence, and make uncertainty explicit.
Drive incidents to verified closure. Work with accountable owners to validate containment and recovery, document remaining risk, and track corrective actions that reduce the likelihood or impact of recurrence.
Coordinate with engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy, and other stakeholders throughout an incident. Give executives clear updates on impact, uncertainty, decisions, and the next update without overstating what the evidence supports.
Build sustainable on-call coverage, escalation paths, and handoffs across regions. Balance urgent response with training and planned improvements, and protect the team’s ability to recover after demanding incidents.
Build readiness into new research and infrastructure capabilities with their owners. Exercise playbooks, escalation paths, and containment options, including scenarios involving agents operating across systems at scale.
Turn incident evidence into stronger defenses with Detection Engineering teams. Identify what should have exposed an intrusion earlier, what prevented a faster or more confident investigation, and which capabilities would have changed the outcome. Translate those findings into tested improvements with clear owners.
Prioritize improvements using incident outcomes and readiness evidence. Measure response quality and effectiveness, make tradeoffs explicit, and address recurring friction without reducing success to ticket volume or speed alone.
You might thrive if you:
You are motivated by the responsibility of protecting frontier AI. You want to understand how powerful new systems can fail or be compromised, help their builders move forward securely, and use the same advances in AI to strengthen defenders.
You have managed security responders or a closely related technical operations team, with a record of hiring, coaching, delivering candid feedback, and helping people grow.
You bring strong AI fluency and an AI-first builder mindset. You have used models or agents to improve real investigation or response workflows and can show validated results. You understand their failure modes and pair ambitious automation with rigorous evaluations and human judgment.
You are a hands-on builder with deep investigation expertise across identity, cloud, host, and infrastructure systems. You can prototype tools, write scripts or code, and coach responders through difficult evidence questions, including unfamiliar parts of the stack.
You have commanded consequential incidents involving capable adversariesation, recognize when new evidence requires a change in direction, and remain accountable for the consequences.
You communicate clearly with engineers, executives, and legal or privacy partners. You can explain uncertainty, document decision rationale, and keep stakeholders aligned as facts change.
You have improved on-call operations, response playbooks, or exercise programs, and understand how workload, handoffs, and team health affect response quality.
You can prioritize a small number of meaningful improvements, influence partners who own remediation, and follow through until the agreed outcome has been verified.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation
$401K – $510K + Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
Security - San Francisco and US - Remote
About the team
Ensuring that advanced AI benefits humanity requires protecting the research, infrastructure, and trust that make its development and deployment possible. OpenAI Security defends our model IP, people, products, and users against sophisticated adversaries across GPU supercomputing, multicloud environments, datacenters, and emerging agent systems. The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) leads the response when those defenses are tested—establishing what happened, limiting harm, and strengthening our ability to protect frontier AI.
About the role
We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to build the incident response team that protects OpenAI as AI capabilities and the threats surrounding them evolve. You will command consequential incidents, lead technically demanding investigations, and make containment and recovery decisions when evidence is incomplete and the stakes are high. You will also shape how frontier models change incident response: using OpenAI’s own technology to help responders connect evidence, test hypotheses, and act effectively at a scale that manual workflows cannot support. Partnering with Research, Infrastructure, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering, you will build exceptional responders, dependable AI-powered capabilities, and stronger defenses through every investigation.
In this role, you will:
Hire, coach, and develop exceptional incident responders who combine investigative depth, engineering ability, and sound judgment. Build a team that challenges assumptions, surfaces uncertainty early, and uses AI to expand its capabilities. Develop technical leaders who can make and explain difficult decisions under pressure.
Lead incident command for complex threats to OpenAI’s research, products, and infrastructure. Establish severity and scope, coordinate investigation workstreams, and weigh containment options against ongoing exposure and disruption to research or production.
Build and ship agentic capabilities using OpenAI’s models for evidence collection engineers to integrate tools and data, evaluate accuracy and failure modes, and ensure reliable, auditable operation with human approval for consequential actions.
Set investigation standards for sophisticated adversaries and insider threats across identity, endpoints, cloud, Kubernetes, and large-scale compute. Help responders reconstruct activity, test competing hypotheses, preserve evidence, and make uncertainty explicit.
Drive incidents to verified closure. Work with accountable owners to validate containment and recovery, document remaining risk, and track corrective actions that reduce the likelihood or impact of recurrence.
Coordinate with engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy, and other stakeholders throughout an incident. Give executives clear updates on impact, uncertainty, decisions, and the next update without overstating what the evidence supports.
Build sustainable on-call coverage, escalation paths, and handoffs across regions. Balance urgent response with training and planned improvements, and protect the team’s ability to recover after demanding incidents.
Build readiness into new research and infrastructure capabilities with their owners. Exercise playbooks, escalation paths, and containment options, including scenarios involving agents operating across systems at scale.
Turn incident evidence into stronger defenses with Detection Engineering teams. Identify what should have exposed an intrusion earlier, what prevented a faster or more confident investigation, and which capabilities would have changed the outcome. Translate those findings into tested improvements with clear owners.
Prioritize improvements using incident outcomes and readiness evidence. Measure response quality and effectiveness, make tradeoffs explicit, and address recurring friction without reducing success to ticket volume or speed alone.
You might thrive if you:
You are motivated by the responsibility of protecting frontier AI. You want to understand how powerful new systems can fail or be compromised, help their builders move forward securely, and use the same advances in AI to strengthen defenders.
You have managed security responders or a closely related technical operations team, with a record of hiring, coaching, delivering candid feedback, and helping people grow.
You bring strong AI fluency and an AI-first builder mindset. You have used models or agents to improve real investigation or response workflows and can show validated results. You understand their failure modes and pair ambitious automation with rigorous evaluations and human judgment.
You are a hands-on builder with deep investigation expertise across identity, cloud, host, and infrastructure systems. You can prototype tools, write scripts or code, and coach responders through difficult evidence questions, including unfamiliar parts of the stack.
You have commanded consequential incidents involving capable adversariesation, recognize when new evidence requires a change in direction, and remain accountable for the consequences.
You communicate clearly with engineers, executives, and legal or privacy partners. You can explain uncertainty, document decision rationale, and keep stakeholders aligned as facts change.
You have improved on-call operations, response playbooks, or exercise programs, and understand how workload, handoffs, and team health affect response quality.
You can prioritize a small number of meaningful improvements, influence partners who own remediation, and follow through until the agreed outcome has been verified.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation
$401K – $510K + Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote incident response engineer jobs.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar
- Proficiency in digital forensics and malware analysis using tools like Volatility, FTK, or EnCase
- Knowledge of network traffic analysis and packet inspection with Wireshark or similar tools
- Relevant certification such as GCIH, GCFE, Security+, or CySA+
- Familiarity with endpoint detection and response platforms including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Carbon Black
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or equivalent practical experience
Tips for Your Remote Incident Response Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote incident response engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place. Check it regularly and apply directly to roles that match your stack and seniority level before postings fill.
Document your incident-handling process publicly
Remote hiring managers can't watch you work, so show your process instead. Write up a post-incident review from a lab exercise or CTF, publish it, and link it in your application. Concrete documented decisions replace in-person reputation.
Prove async communication skills before the interview
Remote incident response teams rely on Slack, JIRA, and written runbooks during live incidents. Prepare concise written answers to technical screening questions and send follow-up emails that are clear and structured. Your writing is your first audition.
Emphasize remote tooling fluency on your resume
Call out specific SIEM platforms, EDR tools, ticketing systems, and collaboration tools you have used in distributed environments. Remote employers want to know you can operate their stack without onboarding hand-holding from day one.
Remote Incident Response Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote incident response engineer job?
Target companies with distributed security teams: remote-first MDR providers, cloud-native SaaS firms, and large enterprises that operate 24/7 SOCs across time zones. Remote hiring managers screen hard for self-direction, clear async written communication, and the ability to run an incident without real-time hand-holding. Demonstrable hands-on skills in SIEM platforms, endpoint forensics, and threat containment carry more weight than a polished resume alone.
Which companies hire remote incident response engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote incident response engineers include CrowdStrike, Check Point Software Technologies, and ServiceNow, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote openings for this role are most common at managed detection and response firms, cybersecurity consultancies, and large distributed enterprises across technology, financial services, and healthcare.
Can you get a remote incident response engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry roles are harder to land because employers expect you to triage and contain incidents without someone physically nearby to ask. Candidates who break in typically show home lab projects, documented CTF participation, or a self-built detection environment. Smaller remote-first MSSPs and cybersecurity consultancies are more open to entry-level hires than enterprise teams that need someone ready to work independently from day one.
Do you need a degree for remote incident response engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in cybersecurity weigh practical skills, certifications like GCIH, GCFE, or CEH, and demonstrated incident-handling experience heavily alongside or instead of a degree. Candidates who can show documented playbooks they have written, real incident timelines they have managed, or lab environments they have built often compete effectively against degree holders for remote roles.
Which industries hire the most remote incident response engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote incident response engineers are Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries run distributed security operations across multiple time zones, which makes remote incident response engineers a practical and often preferred staffing model.
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