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Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response

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Department
Cybersecurity
Employment
Full Time
Experience
Senior
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AI Summary

The role, at a glance.

Databricks is seeking a senior individual contributor to investigate, contain, and remediate security incidents across its enterprise and cloud environment. The role participates in a distributed 24x7 on-call operation and performs alert triage, digital forensics, timeline analysis, and impact assessment. The engineer will also build incident-response tooling and AI-enabled or agentic automation to improve the scale and speed of the IR function. Candidates need substantial incident response experience, multi-cloud security knowledge, SIEM/SOAR familiarity, scripting ability, and strong technical leadership and communication skills.

Role DNA

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Job Complexity

5/5
EasyHard

Pace & Pressure

5/5
RelaxedFast-paced

Autonomy Level

5/5
GuidedFull ownership

Communication Load

5/5
IndependentCollaborative
AI insightThis is a staff-level incident response role requiring deep DFIR expertise, broad cloud-security capability, and the ability to lead technical direction during high-priority incidents. The 24x7 on-call model, cross-functional influence, and expectation to create AI-enabled automation make the role highly demanding.

Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianHighly competitive
$220,000
US market range$180k–$260k
AI insightNo actual salary, pay range, or other candidate compensation is disclosed in the posting. These figures are estimated USD yearly US-market base-salary benchmarks for a Staff Security Engineer specializing in incident response; actual pay may vary by location, level calibration, bonus, and equity.

Core skills

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Sample interview questions
Describe how you would investigate a suspected cloud account compromise.

I would first validate the alert and scope the affected identity, accounts, resources, and time window. I would preserve relevant audit logs, review authentication and API activity, identify privilege changes and data-access events, contain the account through credential revocation or session controls, and document a timeline, impact assessment, and remediation plan.

How have you used automation to improve an incident response process?

I identify repetitive, high-confidence actions such as enrichment, indicator correlation, evidence collection, and ticket creation. I build tested workflows with clear approval gates for destructive actions, measure time-to-triage and false-positive rates, and continuously refine the automation based on responder feedback and post-incident reviews.

What is your approach to conducting forensics across multiple data sources?

I normalize timestamps, establish reliable sources of truth, and correlate endpoint, identity, cloud-control-plane, network, and application telemetry. I maintain evidence integrity, form and test hypotheses against the data, and produce an auditable timeline that distinguishes verified facts from assumptions.

How would you evaluate an AI or agentic system proposed for security operations?

I would assess the system’s data access, permissions, prompt-injection resilience, output reliability, auditability, and failure modes. I would begin with low-risk assistive use cases, require human review for consequential actions, evaluate quality against representative incident data, and implement monitoring and rollback controls.

How do you provide technical leadership as an individual contributor during incidents?

I create clarity around ownership, priorities, evidence, and decision points while remaining hands-on with investigation work. I communicate concise updates to technical and business stakeholders, guide containment choices using risk-based tradeoffs, and turn lessons learned into durable improvements through tooling, documentation, and mentoring.

This analysis is generated from the job description. Salary estimates, role characteristics and sample answers are guidance, not employer-provided facts.
Opportunity details

About this role.

RDQ327R180

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 24×7 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

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

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer’s discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

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