Incident Response Security Engineer

About ClickHouse Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 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! 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 (AWS, GCP, Azure) Compensation For roles based in the United States , t he typical starting salary range for this position is listed above.

In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting.

The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

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 globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries.

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 other countries. A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.

Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites. Culture - We All Shape It As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

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