Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response

Databricks; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response, to join a distributed 24x7 IR team. You will conduct security analysis, forensics and high-priority incident handling, and contribute to AI-driven automation and agentic capabilities.

You will lead technical decisions, mentor juniors, and drive scalable incident response across cloud environments and SaaS applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years IR experience, or Master's degree with 5+ years.
• Cloud security expertise in AWS, GCP or Azure, and proficiency in the others.
• Proficiency in AI/LLM and agentic security capabilities.
• Broad security subject matter expertise.
• Expertise in IR skills (DFIR, reverse engineering, network and storage security).
• Experience with SIEM and SOAR; tooling and scripting experience.

Responsibilities

• Respond to incidents as part of a 24x7 distributed operations and on-call rotation.
• Triage and respond to security events and alerts with containment focus.
• Perform analytics and forensics across data sources to map timelines and impact.
• Provide technical leadership and influence team direction.
• Develop solutions including AI and agentic capabilities to scale impact.
• Communicate design decisions and mentor junior responders through reviews.

Skills

Incident Response

Cloud security

AI / LLM

IR skills

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

AI coding tools

Agentic platforms

Job description

The Incident Response team's mission is to respond to security threats, incidents and investigations to protect our customers, employees and enterprise data in a fast, efficient and standardised manner. We're a tight-knit team of security incident responders and incident handlers doing \"Security for Databricks on Databricks\", using our own platform to create near-real-time log analytics, alerting and forensics.

As a Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response, you will be an individual contributor on the security Incident Response (IR) team at Databricks, reporting to the regional IR manager. You will be responsible for conducting security analysis and forensics, responding to high-priority alerts and contributing to automations and agentic capabilities. You will be a security multiplier and help the team scale security incident response at Databricks.

• Belgium
• Finland
• Remote - Denmark
• Remote - France
• Remote - Germany
• Remote - Italy
• Remote - Netherlands
• Remote - Spain
• Remote - Sweden
• Remote - United Kingdom
• Switzerland

The impact you will have:

• You will respond to incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations and on-call schedule.
• You will triage and respond to security events and alerts, ensuring quick and effective containment.
• You will conduct analysis and forensics across a range of data sources to determine the timeline and impact of security events.
• You will provide technical leadership and influence team direction.
• You will develop solutions, including leveraging AI and agentic platforms, to deliver autonomous capabilities, expedite your work and scale the impact of the team.
• You will communicate technical decisions through design docs and tech talks, and mentor junior security responders via security guidance, design reviews and code reviews.

What we look for:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years experience in Incident Response work OR Master's Degree AND 5+ years experience.
• Cloud security expertise in at least 1 of AWS, GCP or Azure, and proficiency in the others.
• Proficiency in AI/LLM and agentic capabilities. Prefer experience with building and operating agentic systems in a security setting.
• Broad security subject matter expertise.
• Expertise in a few core IR skills (DFIR, Reverse Engineering, Traditional Network Security, Storage and access security, Sandboxing, Compute security, etc.).
• Experience with Enterprise Security and SaaS applications.
• Working knowledge of a SIEM and SOAR.
• Experience building Incident Response Tooling, scripting language skills and experience with AI coding tools.

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

Compliance

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