🇺🇸Incident response jobs in California
674 open roles mentioning Incident response in California as of Nov 15, 2026. Anduril Industries, OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic and Cerebras have the most. 39 are remote and the median advertised salary is $222K.
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- Engineering ManagerSapiom · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA—RailsShopifyAI agents
- Principal Sofware Engineer, Applied AIPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$203K - $275KLead and aboveKubernetesAIIncident response
- Senior Software Engineer, Data EngineeringRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorMachine LearningAI agentsData quality
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform FullstackAirbyte · 🇺🇸San Francisco$196K - $235KHybridSeniorTypeScriptReactJava
- Senior Manager, Workplace OperationsZip · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $200KHybridSeniorIncident responseContract negotiationPreventive maintenance
- Senior Database AdministratorBraze · 🇺🇸San Francisco$129K - $232KSeniorPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform (LKS)Lambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KHybridMachine LearningKubernetesIncident response
- Senior Software Security EngineerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$191K - $254KSeniorRustGoJava
- Senior Cloud Network EngineerNubank · 🇺🇸Palo Alto—HybridSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Software Engineer, StorageCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$170K - $190KSeniorRustGoJava
- Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms and Agentic & ML SystemsSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$230K - $270KHybridSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software EngineerSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$225K - $280KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PlatformBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$194K - $343KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Model Safety Program Manager, User Safety & Risk OperationsOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$252K - $280KHybridIncident response
- Senior Wireless Network EngineerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$147K - $196KSeniorPythonAnsibleComputer Vision
- Senior Production Engineer ICoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$153K - $204KSeniorPythonTerraformGCP
- Senior Privacy Counsel, TinderMatch Group · 🇺🇸West Hollywood, California$205K - $235KSeniorIncident responseGDPRData privacy
- Senior Staff Security Architect (Digital Assets)SoFi · 🇺🇸WA - Seattle; UT - Cottonwood Heights; CA - San Francisco…—Lead and aboveCI/CDKubernetesAWS
- Engineering Manager, Data PlatformSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$220K - $400KHybridRustPythonClickHouse
- Government Cloud Security EngineerxAI · 🇺🇸Austin, TX; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Washington, DC$100K - $198KTerraformAzureLinux
- Engineering Manager (Security)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KHybridLLMCI/CDKubernetes
- Senior Site Reliability EngineerAirbyte · 🇺🇸San Francisco$196K - $235KHybridSeniorGoPythonJava
- Director, Product Security, PSIRTOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; San Francisco, California$224K - $345KLead and aboveMachine LearningSecurity clearanceAI agents
- Security EngineerCartesia · 🇺🇸*HQ - San Francisco, CA$200K - $240KPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Staff Data Engineer, Advanced Insights & ModelingBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$240K - $359KLead and abovePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff SRE, Incident ManagementWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$276K - $311KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Network Production Engineer, OperationsCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$215K - $260KLead and abovePythonPrometheusGrafana
- IT Manager, ManufacturingSkydio · 🇺🇸Hayward, California, United States$157K - $210KPythonTerraformLinux
- Senior Staff Incident Response EngineerSoFi · 🇺🇸WA - Seattle; CA - San Francisco—Lead and aboveGoPythonSQL
- Senior Software Engineer - SecurityCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$170K - $205KSeniorLinuxIncident responseApplication security
- Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)Shield AI · 🇺🇸San Diego, CA, US—Lead and aboveGoPythonKubernetes
- Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)Shield AI · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, US—Lead and aboveGoPythonKubernetes
- Threat Detection and Response Engineering ManagerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$401K - $510KKubernetesOpenAI APIIncident response
- Security Incident Response Team ManagerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$401K - $510KKubernetesOpenAI APIIncident response
- Senior Engineering Manager, ProductOtter.ai · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$230K - $290KSeniorPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Software Engineering Manager (Factory Data)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Santa Ana, California, United States$191K - $254KGCPAzureKafka
- Information Security AnalystVast · 🇺🇸Long Beach, California, United States$90K - $158KPythonLinuxBash
- Offensive Security EngineerFinix · 🇺🇸San Francisco—GoPythonJava
- Software Engineering Manager (ArsenalOS Deployment)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Santa Ana, California, United States$191K - $254KTypeScriptJavaScriptReact
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Applied Intelligence)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Santa Ana, California, United States$220K - $292KSeniorPythonDockerMachine Learning
- Sr. Security Analyst, Third Party Risk ManagementxAI · 🇺🇸Austin, TX; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Washington, DC$132K - $228KSeniorGCPAzureLLM
- Site Reliability EngineerApex Technology · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$155K - $195KGoPythonTerraform
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Bare Metal InfrastructureTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $350KTerraformLinuxKubernetes
- Engineering Manager, Security (Cloud, Infrastructure & Application Security)Replit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $387KHybridGoPythonTypeScript
- Member of Technical Staff, Engineering LeaderNectar Social · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$250K - $300KHybridTypeScriptReactPostgreSQL
- Senior Software Engineer (Ruby/Rails), MVRCheckr · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$185K - $218KSeniorRubyCI/CDRails
- Senior Information Systems Security Officer, NGC2Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$147K - $196KSeniorKubernetesComputer VisionSecurity clearance
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering - AI FoundationsRiot Games · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, USA—Lead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Staff Software Engineer, Financial InfrastructureReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$290K - $375KHybridLead and aboveData modelingMessage queuesIncident response
- Senior IT ManagerNeonredwood · 🇺🇸San Francisco—SeniorAWSGoogle WorkspaceVPN
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Who is hiring for Incident response roles in California
What Incident response roles in California pay, by level
| Level in the title | Median advertised salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| No level in the title | $212K | 236 |
| Senior | $213K | 188 |
| Lead and above | $261K | 137 |
Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.
Questions about Incident response jobs in California
- How many Incident response jobs in California are open right now?
- There are 674 open Incident response jobs in California at 192 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 52 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most Incident response jobs in California?
- Right now the most openings are at Anduril Industries (47), OpenAI (40), SpaceX (39), Anthropic (30) and CoreWeave (24). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote Incident response jobs in California?
- 39 of the 674 open Incident response jobs in California (6%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- What do Incident response jobs in California pay?
- The median advertised salary is $222K, based on 566 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $184K and $276K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay. Most employers here are technology companies, so the figures run above the wider market for the same work.
- Is it hard to get one of the Incident response jobs in California?
- 7 of the 674 open Incident response jobs in California (1%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 440 postings that state experience, the median asks for 5 years. 192 companies are hiring and 52 roles were posted in the last seven days. Matching your resume to the skills each posting names helps most; the free resume builder shows the match.
- How is AI changing Incident response jobs in California?
- 221 of the 674 open Incident response jobs in California (33%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often LLM, Machine Learning, Computer Vision. Employers still list 674 such roles today at 192 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do Incident response jobs in California ask for?
- Most often Incident response (100%), Python (48%), AWS (35%), Kubernetes (35%), Go (28%) of the 674 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in Incident response jobs in California?
- Senior Software Engineer (42), Software Engineer (33), Staff Software Engineer (31), Engineering Manager (27), Security Engineer (20): the most common titles among the 674 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are Incident response jobs in California in demand in 2026?
- 674 Incident response jobs in California are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 192 companies, 0.5% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 52 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $222K. 39 (6%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for Incident response jobs in California?
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