Sr Security Engineer, Incident Response

Databricks · Switzerland · Security · listed July 3, 2026

The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
2–4 years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
8
Length
595 words

In the posting’s own words

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.

What it asks for · 8

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in Incident Response work OR Master's Degree AND 2+ years experience.
  • Strong cloud security background in at least 1 of AWS, GCP or Azure, and working knowledge of the others.
  • Knowledge of AI/LLM and agentic capabilities, including effective prompting and use of MCP, agents and agent skills. Prefer experience with building and operating agentic systems in a security setting.
  • Broad security subject matter expertise.
  • Expertise in 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 and scripting language skills.

What the job covers

  • 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 contribute to security investigations, conducting analysis and forensics across a range of data sources to determine the timeline and impact of security events.
  • You will build automations, 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.

Degree language

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in Incident Response work OR Master's Degree AND 2+ years experience.

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Security19×
Data
  • Databricks4×
Cloud & infra
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
Models & research
  • LLM
  • Prompt engineering
Ways of working
  • Code review
  • On-call
Go to market
  • SaaS

Words the posting leans on

  • security19×
  • incident9×
  • experience5×
  • incident response5×
  • agentic4×
  • forensics3×
  • impact3×
  • knowledge3×
  • security incident3×
  • skills3×
  • agent2×
  • agentic capabilities2×
  • alerts2×
  • analysis2×
  • automations2×
  • building2×

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