Incident Response Security Engineer
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
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)
Perks
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 USD$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.
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Penetration Testing
Rare in ClickHouse's other 153 open postings.
Standard for security roles
AWS · Python
Common in security postings at any company.
72% of this description is written for the role. The rest is ClickHouse's standard text, folded away below.
Read against ClickHouse's other open postings on this site.
The team: Security
This role is one of 8 open in Security.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (8 of 8), Azure (8 of 8), ClickHouse (8 of 8), GCP (8 of 8), Penetration Testing (5 of 8), C++ (4 of 8), Golang (4 of 8)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Incident Response Security Engineer posted Aug 25
- Offensive Security Engineer posted Aug 3
- Senior Product Security Engineer posted Jul 29
- Senior Product Security Engineer posted Jul 29
- Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform posted Jun 22
- Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform posted Jun 22
- Cloud Security Engineer posted Apr 7
From the team and dates on ClickHouse's own job board.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in United States, first posted 2 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 2 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 2 October 2026 – open
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