Senior Security Engineer – Detection

While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations.

The Detection & Response team’s mission is to preserve Databricks infrastructure and employees from active security threats. We are a tight-knit team of security analysts and incident responders 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 Detection team at Databricks, reporting to the Director of Detection Engineering.

You are passionate about software engineering for Security goals. You have experience building on PySpark, and writing clean, modular and tested code. You love to learn, and to share your knowledge with the team.

The impact you will have

• Build core components in a Python detection framework using the Databricks PySpark engine, and prepare your code for open source release. The goal is to empower all Security Engineers to create streaming detections.
• Engineer complex detections on Spark in Python (with good design, clean code, unit testing, full documentation).
• Write documentation and playbooks to guide Incident Response.
• Take feedback well, and give feedback in an environment of mutual respect and aid.

What we look for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of Security-related engineering (Detection Engineering preferred)
• 1+ yrs experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Python, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD automation.
• Some knowledge across two or more Security SME areas: Network security, Host/Disk analysis, Application/Log analysis, Memory/Malware analysis, Endpoint security

Benefits

• Health insurance reimbursement and collective healthcare scheme
• Life, accident and disability coverage
• Company pension
• Paid parental leave
• Annual vacation bonus
• Equity awards
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Business travel accident insurance

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