Senior Manager, SIRT

About the Role

As the SIRT Manager, you will lead Twitch's Security Incident Response Team, reporting to the VP of Security. You'll oversee a team responsible for detecting and handling security incidents, and be an advocate for lessons learned from incidents across Twitch. You bring expertise in threat intelligence, detection engineering, and incident response. Your team will work directly with affected teams to contain and learn from incidents.

We encourage you to apply if you have a combination of the skills outlined below.

You can work from San Francisco, CA;
Irvine, CA or Seattle, WA!

• Participate in, and graduate to, escalation for, an on-call rotation of your direct reports on the Incident Response Team.
• Identify opportunities for automation to enhance your team's efficiency.
• Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using clear guidelines that establish what constitutes a security incident.
• Evaluate the potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch.
• Communicate security incident details, impact assessments, and response actions to leadership and executive partners.
• Foster a culture of learning and knowledge sharing within your team and across the organization.

• 5+ years managing a team of incident handlers and security engineers, or 2 years of management experience with at least 3 years of hands‑on security incident response work.
• Delivered security programs like network security monitoring, cloud security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, or other reactive information security programs.
• Approach to incident response is collaborative, not combative.
• Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, or Bash).
• In-depth knowledge of internet security issues and the threat landscape.
• Background in cloud, host, network, and application security.

• Experience managing and mitigating high impact security risks on a global platform.
• Familiarity with Twitch.

• Medical, dental, vision & disability insurance.
• 401(k).
• Maternity & parental leave.
• Flexible PTO.
• Amazon employee discount.

US, WA, Seattle – Annually: $175,100—$236,900 USD

US, CA, San Francisco – Annually: $201,300—$272,400 USD

US, CA, Irvine – Annually: $175,100—$236,900 USD

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.