Senior DFIR Engineer — AI-Driven Incident Response

VulnU; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for DFIR to investigate threats, perform digital forensics, and enhance defense tooling across our Cloud/SaaS platform. You will drive investigations, develop automated workflows, and partner with engineering to implement practical protections.

We value experience in security tooling, threat intelligence, and a hands-on approach to incident response in a fast-growing AI-native environment. Remote-ready with security-focused engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating security threats or platform abuse.
• Ability to translate findings into practical software changes or automated controls.
• Experience with cloud or SaaS systems, including leveraging IAM/audit data for investigations.

Responsibilities

• Investigate threats affecting the ClickUp platform and internal systems.
• Lead investigations through findings, response and root cause with remediation ownership.
• Build and improve AI-assisted and agentic workflows for incident response and DFIR.
• Design, develop and deploy security controls that address underlying issues and automate checks.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data and operations to harden defenses.

Skills

AI-assisted workflows

Incident response

Threat analysis

Security investigations

Agentic security tooling

Tools

SAST

DAST

RASP

Dependency checkers

SIEM

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for DFIR to investigate threats, perform digital forensics, and enhance defense tooling across our Cloud/SaaS platform. You will drive investigations, develop automated workflows, and partner with engineering to implement practical protections.

We value experience in security tooling, threat intelligence, and a hands-on approach to incident response in a fast-growing AI-native environment. Remote-ready with security-focused engineering culture.