Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

Overview

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 are 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 identify problems with ambiguous requirements (lack of clarity, inconsistencies, technical limitations) for your work and communicate these issues early to help course‑correct.
• You will communicate technical decisions through design docs, tech talks and mentor junior security responders via security guidance, design reviews and code reviews.
• You will triage and respond to security events and alerts by understanding existing logs and correlating from multiple sources during an investigation.
• Respond to new incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations and on‑call schedule.
• You will build automation to improve security incident response and alerts triage.

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years experience in Incident Response work OR Master’s Degree AND 4+ years experience.
• Cloud Security Essentials in at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure. Working knowledge of GCP and Azure.
• Broad Security subject‑matter expertise.
• Expertise in 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 and scripting language skills.

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