Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response
Join Databricks as a Staff Security Engineer to lead incident response efforts and enhance security capabilities using AI and automation.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 18 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 18 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Respond to incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations
- Triage and respond to security events and alerts
- Conduct analysis and forensics across data sources
- Develop solutions leveraging AI and agentic platforms
- Communicate technical decisions and mentor junior responders
Must have
- Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years experience in Incident Response work
- Cloud security expertise in at least 1 of AWS, GCP or Azure
- Proficiency in AI/LLM and agentic capabilities
- Expertise in core IR skills
Nice to have
- Experience with Enterprise Security and SaaS applications
- Working knowledge of a SIEM and SOAR
- Experience building Incident Response Tooling
- Scripting language skills
- Experience with AI coding tools
Practical constraints
- On-call schedule
AI in the day-to-day
Leverage AI and agentic platforms to deliver autonomous capabilities and expedite work.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Security Engineer on the Incident Response team at Databricks focuses on analyzing security incidents, responding to alerts, and developing automation solutions to enhance the team's efficiency. Key skills include expertise in cloud security across platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with proficiency in AI and incident response tooling. This position is suited for experienced professionals with a strong background in security analysis and forensics, ideally with over five years in incident response. The team operates in a collaborative environment, leveraging Databricks' own platform for security operations.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 25, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page September 25, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response role remote?
- Yes — Databricks lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, AWS, Access Security, Azure, Compute Security, DFIR.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response
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:
- 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
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