Sr. Staff Engineer, Incident Response

RDQ226R535

While candidates based in the listed locations are encouraged to apply, we are open to considering strong applicants in other locations across the U.S. This role is remotefriendly, with a preference for candidates located in the San Francisco, Bay Area or SeattleBellevue, Washington.

Databricks is seeking an exceptional and strategic Sr. Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response to join our Incident Response team. This pivotal role will provide decisions that have a direct impact on the longterm success of Databricks security posture, creating solutions that enable potential future opportunities without a known path. You will play a key role in developing multiyear technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business, encompassing multiple systems and teams, consistently delivering largescale projects that meet company goals.

The Incident Response teams mission is to rapidly, efficiently, and standardly respond to security threats, incidents, and investigations to protect our customers, employees, and enterprise data. We leverage Databricks own platform for nearrealtime log analytics, alerting, and forensics, embracing a Security for Databricks on Databricks philosophy. As an Sr. Staff Security Engineer, you will tackle the most technical SIRTs, drive complex, openended problems with no obvious path to success, act as a multiplier by enabling systems, authoring tools, or introducing policies that elevate the entire organizations productivity.

The impact you will have:

• Strategic Impact & Technical Vision: Drive or influence the organization’s direction and roadmap, leading internal conversations about major technology areas and inspiring adoption. Provide decisions with direct, longterm impact on Databricks success.
• Incident Leadership & Crisis Management: Lead complex investigations and impact analysis, performing crisis management using the Incident Management System (IMS). Engage with various stakeholders and communicate findings to executive leadership, ensuring successful navigation of major security incidents with minimal business impact.
• Advanced Threat Management: Exhibit expert knowledge in all cloud vendors used by Databricks (AWS, Azure, GCP), deeply understanding the entire architecture of major business components and articulating their security and risk limits. Drive the establishment of a cuttingedge threat detection and response program, significantly reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) to security incidents.
• Technical Innovation & Automation: Architect scalable and organized frameworks for security automation and orchestration, including preinvestigation analysis and triage of alerts. Understand trends and directions of the security industry within your domain and architect largescale designs consistent with organizational and company goals.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrate the ability to fix difficult and companyimpactful problems wherever they lie, even if outside your comfort zone. Possess a full understanding of what malicious activity looks like in each cloud layer (network, storage, compute), understanding existing logs and correlating from multiple sources during an investigation.
• CrossFunctional Collaboration & Mentorship: Serve as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the team. Identify areas where Databricks can share effectively with the outside world, guiding content creation and communication via presentations and blogs. Work across departments, integrating security practices into various aspects of the organization and product development lifecycle.

• What we look for:

  • Experience: Typically 12+ years of experience in security, with a strong focus on incident response, detection, andor threat intelligence, or an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience. This includes deep expertise in Incident Management and Incident Response tool development.
  • Cloud Security Expertise: Demonstrates knowledge of Azure and AWS cloud concepts, showing expertise in analyzing logs, correlating available log sources to conclude an attack scenario, and identifying logging gaps to suggest best configurations for IR needs. You can function as an architect of cloud deployment and map cloud environment fundamentals to other major providers.
  • Digital Forensics: Highly skilled in multiple areas of digital forensics (e.g., Network, ApplicationLog Analysis, HostDisk, Memory ForensicsMalware Analysis, Cloud Forensics, Endpoint Forensics), able to speak confidently on advanced concepts like virtualized networking, advanced network anomalies, and container forensics.
  • Enterprise Security: Has a detailed understanding of enterprise security incidents and indepth knowledge of malware on endpoints. Possesses expert understanding of MacOS security posture and architecture.
  • Technical Depth: Proficient with SIEM and SOAR platforms, EDR solutions, and forensic analysis tools. Skilled in leveraging AI and automation technologies to enhance security operations and threat detection capabilities.
  • Leadership & Communication: Exceptional ability to engage in difficult conversations, handle them appropriately, and exhibit empathy and emotional intelligence. Proven capability to build, mentor, and lead highperforming cybersecurity teams, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Strong communication of technical decisions through design docs and tech talks.
  • Bias for Action & Collaboration: A history of proactively identifying and solving issues that impact the team and company. Demonstrates a strong desire to help peers and collaborate effectively.
  • CustomerStakeholder Obsessed: Able to push back or say no to unreasonable stakeholder requests in a professional and constructive manner.

  • U.S. Citizenship Requirement

    This role will involve services that are covered by and must comply with the U.S. Government information security and federal contractor regulations, including, without limiation, Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements for Impact Level 6 Cloud Service Provider personnel, FedRAMP High baseline, and requirements of certain federal contracts. Therefore, this role is open to United States citizens on United States Soil only.

    Pay Range Transparency

    Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for noncommissionable roles or ontarget earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to jobrelated skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
    

    Zone 1 Pay Range

    $207,900—$291,000 USD

    Pay Range Transparency

    Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for noncommissionable roles or ontarget earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to jobrelated skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
    

    Zone 2 Pay Range

    $187,000—$261,850 USD

    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. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
    
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