Incident Response Security Engineer

Incident Response Security Engineer

About ClickHouse

ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies, recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. With over 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

Job Description

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 modeling centric approach to incident detection and response
• Maintain security logging platform
• Stay up to date with the latest threats, attack vectors to improve our detection mechanisms and attack surface management
• 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 modeling, 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