Principal Security Engineer, Incident Response
F5 Inc
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This role pays less than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $151,475–$216,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $165k versus about $184k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking, application availability and performance, and network security, access, and authorization.
F5 Inc currently has 44 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $179,500–$269,300 across 31 roles with salary data.
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Security Engineer - Incident response The Security Engineer III joins the Office of the CISO as a core member of the Global Incident Response team. This role involves leading hands-on triage, containment, and resolution of complex security incidents across corporate infrastructure, multicloud environments, core products like BIG-IP and NGINX, and emerging AI-enabled services. Responsibilities include driving incident command workflows, documenting forensic findings, and developing response procedures for large language model workflows and API data paths. The position requires expertise in application security, reverse proxies, load balancers, WAF/WAAP, and Kubernetes ingress security. Candidates must analyze telemetry across AWS, Azure, and GCP using SIEM/EDR platforms like CrowdStrike. The work focuses on mitigating modern attack techniques, API vulnerabilities, and AI security risks while maintaining FedRAMP authorization and compliance standards.
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Median $193000 from 107 postings across 42 companies.
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