Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

The Incident Response team’s mission is to respond to security threats, incidents and investigations to protect customers, employees and enterprise data in a fast, efficient and standardised manner. The team uses Databricks’ own platform to create near-real-time log analytics, alerting and forensics.

As a Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response, you will be an individual contributor on the security Incident Response 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 help the team scale security incident response at Databricks.

The impact you will have:

• Respond to incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations and on-call schedule.
• Triage and respond to security events and alerts, ensuring quick and effective containment.
• Contribute to security investigations, conducting analysis and forensics across a range of data sources to determine the timeline and impact of security events.
• Build automations, including leveraging AI and agentic platforms, to deliver autonomous capabilities, expedite work and scale the impact of the team.
• 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 4+ years experience in Incident Response work, or Master's Degree and 2+ years experience.
• Strong cloud security background in at least 1 of AWS, GCP or Azure, and working knowledge of the others.
• Knowledge of AI/LLM and agentic capabilities, including effective prompting and use of MCP, agents and agent skills. Experience with building and operating agentic systems in a security setting is preferred.
• Broad security subject matter expertise.
• Expertise in a few core IR skills such as DFIR, Reverse Engineering, Traditional Network Security, Storage and access security, Sandboxing, and Compute security.
• Experience with Enterprise Security and SaaS applications.
• Working knowledge of a SIEM and SOAR.
• Experience building Incident Response tooling and scripting language skills.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.

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