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Detection and Incident Response Security Engineer

Clickhouse
United States (remote), United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Mar 2025
💰 $225,000/yr($134,100/yr$225,000/yr)

About the role

About ClickHouse

We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers. 

With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we. 

We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!

 

The Security Team is responsible for providing key security capabilities covering application, cloud and enterprise security, incident response, detection and GRC. Our team is looking for an experienced, hands-on security practitioner, who will drive the adoption of modern security processes and tooling, with focus on supporting our detection and incident response capabilities.

 

What you will do:

  • Develop processes, tooling and automation to scale incident management response and mitigate risks to the business
  • Collaborate with other security functions, engineering, product, support, business operations to identify appropriate detection use cases and automation
  • Apply a threat modelling centric approach to incident detection and response
  • Maintain security logging platform
  • Handle information security events and incidents across the ClickHouse products and services

What you bring along:

  • Background in product security / red teaming / penetration testing / threat modelling, combined with incident detection and response experience
  • Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience securing large-scale customer-facing cloud infrastructures
  • Significant development and automation experience; preference for Golang and Python

Bonus Points:

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
  • Previous contributions to open source projects
  • Security or cloud related certifications
New York Area / San Francisco Area - Salary Range$149,000$225,000 USDWashington State - Full Salary Range$169,150$191,250 USDGeneral US Remote Salary Range $169,150$191,250 USDLos Angeles, CA / Washington, DC - Salary Range$134,100$202,500 USDSeattle, WA - Full Salary Range$134,100$202,500 USD

Compensation

This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant. For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location. 

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

Perks

  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
  • Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
  • Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
  • Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in all countries.
  • A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
  • Employee-driven international mobility- we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 200 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. 

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