Salary for Senior-level / Expert Incident Response Engineer during 2024

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Incident Response Engineer during 2024 is USD 180,400

✏️ This salary info is based on 12 individual salaries reported during 2024

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The average senior-level / expert Incident Response Engineer salary lies between USD 120,000 and USD 200,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Incident Response Engineer
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2024
Sample size
12
Top 10%
$ 247,600
Top 25%
$ 200,000
Median
$ 180,400
Bottom 25%
$ 120,000
Bottom 10%
$ 72,222

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

Last updated: May 19, 2024

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Incident Response Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Incident Response Engineer job listings are Incident response, Cloud and Forensics. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2024 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Incident response | 17 jobs Cloud | 15 jobs Forensics | 12 jobs Python | 11 jobs Monitoring | 9 jobs Automation | 7 jobs Linux | 7 jobs Windows | 7 jobs Scripting | 7 jobs Privacy | 6 jobs SOC | 6 jobs Threat intelligence | 5 jobs Firewalls | 5 jobs Ruby | 5 jobs Threat detection | 4 jobs Strategy | 4 jobs AWS | 4 jobs Azure | 4 jobs Perl | 4 jobs GCP | 4 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Incident Response Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Incident Response Engineer job listings are Parental leave, Flex vacation and Health care. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2024 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Parental leave | 9 jobs Flex vacation | 9 jobs Health care | 8 jobs Equity | 7 jobs Career development | 7 jobs Team events | 7 jobs Insurance | 7 jobs Startup environment | 6 jobs Medical leave | 6 jobs Flex hours | 3 jobs Gear | 3 jobs Salary bonus | 3 jobs 401(k) matching | 2 jobs Wellness | 2 jobs Transparency | 2 jobs Conferences | 2 jobs Snacks / Drinks | 2 jobs Fitness / gym | 1 jobs Competitive pay | 1 jobs

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