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Remote Security Manager jobs are in active demand across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed enterprise teams in sectors like technology, financial services, and healthcare. Employers hiring remotely right now include GardaWorld Security Services US, Delinea, and ServiceNow. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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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
- Banking & Financial Services
- Manufacturing
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote security manager jobs.
- Five or more years of progressively responsible security or law enforcement experience
- Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or equivalent industry credential
- Demonstrated experience managing security personnel and vendor contracts
- Proficiency with access control systems, CCTV platforms, and incident reporting software
- Knowledge of OSHA, NFPA, and relevant local safety and security regulations
- Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, security management, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Security Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote security manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without digging through mixed results. Applying in the first 48 hours of a posting improves your chances before screening volume builds.
Prove async communication skills upfront
Remote security managers write the documentation that keeps distributed teams aligned. Include examples of security policies, incident reports, or risk assessments you have authored in your application materials. Employers use these as a direct signal that you can operate without in-person direction.
Highlight cross-functional remote coordination
Remote security manager roles require you to align engineering, legal, and operations teams without shared office space. Call out specific tools you have used for remote collaboration, like ticketing systems, shared security runbooks, or asynchronous video updates, and describe how you drove decisions across those teams.
Prepare for competency-based remote interviews
Remote employers run structured interviews focused on how you have managed security programs with minimal oversight. Prepare clear examples of a security initiative you led independently, how you communicated a risk to leadership in writing, and how you handled a time-sensitive incident across a distributed team.
Remote Security Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote security manager job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed enterprise teams in technology, financial services, and healthcare, where security managers routinely work without a central office. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to coordinate across time zones without hand-holding. Demonstrating experience managing security programs asynchronously, writing sharp incident reports, and leading distributed teams gives you a real edge over candidates who only have in-office experience.
Which companies hire remote security managers?
Remote security manager roles are posted by GardaWorld Security Services US, Delinea, and ServiceNow and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology firms, distributed financial services companies, and large healthcare organizations are the most consistent sources of remote security manager openings.
Can you get a remote security manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level security manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to operate independently from day one without in-person mentorship. Your best path is to build a portfolio of security documentation, policies, or incident response write-ups, earn widely recognized certifications, and target smaller remote-first companies or startups that are building security programs from the ground up and need a generalist who can own the work immediately.
Do you need a degree for remote security manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers weigh demonstrated security program ownership, industry certifications, and a clear record of managing risk and compliance far more heavily than a specific degree. Candidates who can show they have run audits, written policies, and managed incidents without supervision consistently move forward, even when a degree is listed as preferred rather than required in the posting.
Which industries hire the most remote security managers?
The sectors hiring the most remote security managers are Banking & Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed teams handling sensitive data across multiple locations, which makes a remote security manager who can coordinate and enforce controls without being on-site a practical necessity.
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