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Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response

Databricks· Security/Incident Response
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Hybrid (United States)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor on the security Incident Response (IR) team responsible for security analysis, forensics, high-priority incident response, and development of automations and agentic capabilities to scale security incident response at Databricks.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Conduct analysis and forensics across a range of data sources to determine the timeline and impact of security events.
  • Provide technical leadership and influence team direction.
  • Develop solutions, including leveraging AI and agentic platforms, to deliver autonomous capabilities, expedite work and scale impact.
  • Communicate technical decisions through design docs and tech talks, and mentor junior security responders via security guidance, design reviews and code reviews.

Qualifications

  • 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 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.

Skills

Required:Incident ResponseAI/LLM and agentic capabilities

Benefits

  • Benefits information is available via the region-specific link provided in the job description.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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