Job Overview
Location
Remote Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Cybersecurity
Date Posted
June 18, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Sr. Security Operations Engineer in Incident Response at Affirm, you will play a critical role in protecting the company’s systems, customers, and data by leading hands-on investigations and driving incident response from detection through remediation. This role is essential to safeguarding Affirm’s mission of building honest financial products and ensuring long-term resilience against evolving threats.
- • You will lead security incidents end-to-end, act as incident commander during high-pressure situations, conduct hands-on investigations across cloud and endpoint environments, partner with Observability & Automation to improve detections and build automated playbooks, refine incident response documentation, collaborate across engineering and product teams to strengthen security posture, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- • You will join Affirm’s Security Operations and Resilience Engineering (SOR) team—a group of passionate, highly skilled professionals redefining fintech security through collaboration, innovation, and a team-first mindset. Affirm is a remote-first company committed to transparency, inclusion, and putting people first, with a mission to reinvent credit to be more honest and friendly.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in cloud security (AWS/EKS), incident response leadership, automation, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll have the opportunity to solve complex security challenges, build scalable detection and response capabilities, and directly contribute to protecting millions of customers, merchants, and partners while advancing your career in a high-impact, mission-driven fintech environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of experience in Security Operations or Detection & Response, with strong hands-on incident response in cloud environments (AWS and EKS experience strongly preferred)
- • Proven ability to lead security incidents, including containment and remediation, in fast-moving environments
- • Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize signals from multiple data sources
- • Experience with security tooling such as SIEM and EDR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or similar)
- • Solid understanding of cloud security concepts and their application in real-world scenarios
- • Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey information across technical and non-technical audiences
- • Experience building or improving automation for incident response workflows (e.g., scripting in Python; infrastructure-as-code is a plus)
🏖️ Benefits
- • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
- • Base pay range per year: $153,000 - $213,000 CAD
- • Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
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About Affirm Holdings, Inc.
Affirm Holdings operates a point-of-sale consumer lending platform that integrates with online and in-store checkout systems. Through its technology, shoppers can split purchases into fixed, transparent installment payments, while merchants gain conversion and larger order values. The company underwrites and services loans in the United States and Canada using alternative credit models and data partnerships with banks, avoiding deferred-interest structures. It earns revenue from merchant fees and interest on loans, and offers a mobile app for consumers to manage repayment schedules and access additional credit lines.
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