# Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Ai/Llm, Mcp, Dfir, Reverse Engineering, Network Security, SIEM, Soar, Incident Response Tooling, Scripting, Saas Applications
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> The Senior Security Engineer will investigate, contain, and perform forensics on security incidents while supporting distributed on-call operations. The role also builds AI-enabled response automation and requires cloud security expertise, broad incident response skills, and experience with SIEM, SOAR, and security tooling.

## Job Description

## 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.
- 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 documents and technical talks.
- Mentor junior security responders through security guidance, design reviews, and code reviews.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of incident response experience, or master's degree and 2+ years of experience.
- Strong cloud security background in at least one of AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, with working knowledge of the others.
- Knowledge of AI/LLM and agentic capabilities, including effective prompting and use of MCP, agents, and agent skills.
- Broad security subject matter expertise.
- Expertise in several core incident response 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 SIEM and SOAR.
- Experience building incident response tooling and scripting skills.

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