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Principal Incident Response Engineer

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $117,200–$117,200🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead high-severity security incidents, conduct digital forensics, and perform threat hunting to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IT assets.

Role type

Principal Incident Response Engineer (Threat Detection & Response)

Builds

Incident response playbooks, forensic evidence packages, and AI/LLM workflows for enhanced detection

Domain

Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Cloud Security

Deliverable

client delivery | production ML models

Required skills

digital forensics, incident response methodologies, threat hunting, forensic tool usage, cloud workload analysis, AI/LLM workflow development

Preferred skills

SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR, cloud monitoring, MITRE ATT&CK framework, NIST/SANS/CSA frameworks

Technologies

Encase, FTK, Axiom, Cellebrite, SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR

Responsibilities

Analyze security events and indicators to determine incident nature and severity; Respond to and contain high-severity security incidents; Perform forensic investigations to identify root causes; Lead intelligence-driven threat hunt activities; Develop AI/LLM workflows to enhance detection capabilities; Collaborate with legal experts on evidence preservation and presentation

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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