Incident Response Security Engineer

ClickHouse; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global database company in Canada is searching for an experienced security practitioner. The role involves developing processes for incident management, collaborating on detection use cases, and maintaining security systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product security and cloud services, have excellent communication skills, and enjoy automation development. This position offers a flexible remote work environment and benefits including healthcare and equity in the company.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employer contributions towards healthcare

Equity in the company

Generous time off

$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Qualifications

• Experience in product security, red teaming, and threat modeling.
• Significant experience with incident detection and response.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructures, especially large-scale customer-facing.

Responsibilities

• Develop processes and automation for incident management.
• Collaborate to identify detection use cases.
• Maintain the security logging platform.
• Manage security incidents across ClickHouse products.

Skills

Product security expertise

Red teaming experience

Penetration testing

Incident detection and response

Cloud service knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Development experience in Golang

Automation skills

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

About ClickHouse

Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes.Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

The Security Team at ClickHouse is responsible for providing key security capabilities covering application, cloud and enterprise security, incident response, detection and GRC. Our team is looking for an experienced, hands‑on security practitioner, who will drive the adoption of modern security processes and tooling, with focus on supporting our detection and incident response capabilities.

What you will do

• Develop processes, tooling and automation to scale incident management response and mitigate risks to the business
• Collaborate with other security functions, engineering, product, support, business operations to identify appropriate detection use cases and automation
• Apply a threat modelling centric approach to incident detection and response
• Maintain security logging platform
• Handle information security events and incidents across the ClickHouse products and services

What you bring along

• Background in product security / red teaming / penetration testing / threat modelling, combined with incident detection and response experience
• Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience securing large-scale customer‑facing cloud infrastructures
• Significant development and automation experience; preference for Golang and Python

Bonus Points

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Previous contributions to open source projects
• Security or cloud related certifications

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [e-mail].

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote‑friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in‑person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company‑wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

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