Incident Response Security Engineer New Canada (remote)

ClickHouse, Inc.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

Home office setup $500

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking an experienced security practitioner to drive incident response, detection, and security operations across its cloud products. You will partner with engineering, product and support to scale automation, improve threat detection and respond to security events.

The role requires hands-on security expertise, strong cloud experience across AWS/GCP/Azure, and development skills in Golang and Python, with a focus on large-scale, customer-facing infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Background in product security / red teaming / penetration testing / threat modeling, with incident detection and response experience.
• Strong knowledge of one or more cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience securing large-scale customer-facing cloud infrastructures.
• Development and automation experience; Golang and Python preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop processes, tooling and automation to scale incident management and mitigate business risks.
• Collaborate with security, engineering, product, support and operations to identify detection use cases and automation.
• Apply threat modeling centered approach to detection and response.
• Maintain security logging platform and tooling.
• Stay updated on threats to improve detection and attack surface management.
• Handle information security events and incidents across ClickHouse products and services.

Skills

Threat modeling

Incident detection

Cloud security

Golang

Python

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS

Job description

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 4,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

The Security Team 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 modeling centric approach to incident detection and response
• Maintain security logging platform
• Stay up to date with the latest threats, attack vectors to improve our detection mechanisms and attack surface management
• 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 modeling, 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 (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Compensation

For roles based in theUnited States, t he typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.

These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.

An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 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 a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here . Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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