Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response

Databricks; California; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking an experienced Incident Response professional to join the IR team. You will respond to high-priority security incidents, perform forensics, and contribute to automations on our security platform.

You will operate in a 24x7 on-call model, triage alerts, and lead technical discussions while mentoring junior responders. Qualifications include a current US Secret clearance eligibility (Top Secret preferred), 7+ years in IR (or 5+ with a Master's), and cloud security expertise

Qualifications

• Active or current US GOV Secret clearance eligibility; Top Secret preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree and 7+ years experience in Incident Response, or Master's Degree and 5+ years.
• Cloud security expertise in at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure; proficiency in the others.

Responsibilities

• Respond to security incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations and on-call schedule.
• Triage and respond to security events and alerts; contain incidents quickly and effectively.
• Conduct forensics across data sources to determine timeline and impact of security events.
• Develop autonomous capabilities and AI-assisted security tooling to scale IR.
• Communicate decisions through docs and tech talks; mentor junior responders.

Skills

IR investigations

DFIR

AI/LLM proficiency

Scripting

Incident Response tooling

On-call experience

Cloud security (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

AI tooling

Job description

RDQ227R1180 While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations (US based) will be considered. 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. 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. 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:

• Must have an active or current US GOV Secret clearance eligibility; Top Secret preferred.
• 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 — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — 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 that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

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Compliance

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