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Who we are

In the past, to be a successful restaurateur, you simply had to have a passion for food and a passion for people - but to succeed as a digital restaurateur you also need to have a passion for technology. We believe in the joy of serving others, and that's why we created Otter – to help restaurateurs succeed in online food delivery. Restaurants around the world, both large and small, including Chick-fil-A, Ben & Jerry’s, KFC, and Eataly trust our software to power their delivery business. We increase sales, reduce order issues, and decrease delivery headaches.

What you’ll do

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and optimize systems that power mission-critical applications. Your role will adapt to your strengths and interests, with opportunities to focus on:

• Infrastructure: Build and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance systems to ensure operational reliability.
• Platform: Develop robust APIs and developer tools to improve team efficiency and scalability.
• Product: Engineer backend services that support customer-facing applications and deliver seamless user experiences.

Core Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Ensure high system performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to maintain high-quality standards.
• Mentor junior engineers or take on leadership roles, depending on your seniority.

What we’re looking for

We value diversity of experience and are looking for individuals passionate about solving complex problems. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Java or Go.
• Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications (for Senior Levels):

• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to large-scale data processing or event-driven architectures.
• Leadership experience in team projects or mentoring roles.

Why join us

• Demand for online food delivery is growing really fast! In the last 5 years, just in the US, the overall market has expanded 10X from $10B to $100B, and could expand to $500bn- $1T by 2030.
• Changing the restaurant industry: You’ll be part of a team that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery. 
• Collaborative environment: You will receive support and guidance from experienced colleagues and managers, helping you to learn, grow and achieve your goals, and you’ll work closely with other teams to ensure our customer’s success.

What else you need to know

This role is based in our Aarhus office location. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We’re constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

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This role is open to remote candidates within the Europe, with a preference for those based in London, Netherlands, Germarny or Denmark.

Databricks is seeking an exceptional and strategic  Sr. Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response to join our Incident Response team. This pivotal role will provide decisions that have a direct impact on the long-term success of Databricks' security posture, creating solutions that enable potential future opportunities without a known path. You will play a key role in developing multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business, encompassing multiple systems and teams, consistently delivering large-scale projects that meet company goals.

The Incident Response team's mission is to rapidly, efficiently, and standardly respond to security threats, incidents, and investigations to protect our customers, employees, and enterprise data. We leverage Databricks' own platform for near-real-time log analytics, alerting, and forensics, embracing a "Security for Databricks on Databricks" philosophy. As an Sr. Staff Security Engineer, you will tackle the most technical SIRTs, drive complex, open-ended problems with no obvious path to success, act as a multiplier by enabling systems, authoring tools, or introducing policies that elevate the entire organization's productivity.

The impact you will have:

• Strategic Impact & Technical Vision: Drive or influence the organization’s direction and roadmap, leading internal conversations about major technology areas and inspiring adoption. Provide decisions with direct, long-term impact on Databricks' success.
• Incident Leadership & Crisis Management: Lead complex investigations and impact analysis, performing crisis management using the Incident Management System (IMS). Engage with various stakeholders and communicate findings to executive leadership, ensuring successful navigation of major security incidents with minimal business impact.
• Advanced Threat Management: Exhibit expert knowledge in all cloud vendors used by Databricks (AWS, Azure, GCP), deeply understanding the entire architecture of major business components and articulating their security and risk limits. Drive the establishment of a cutting-edge threat detection and response program, significantly reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) to security incidents.
• Technical Innovation & Automation: Architect scalable and organized frameworks for security automation and orchestration, including pre-investigation analysis and triage of alerts. Understand trends and directions of the security industry within your domain and architect large-scale designs consistent with organizational and company goals.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrate the ability to fix difficult and company-impactful problems wherever they lie, even if outside your comfort zone. Possess a full understanding of what malicious activity looks like in each cloud layer (network, storage, compute), understanding existing logs and correlating from multiple sources during an investigation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Mentorship: Serve as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the team. Identify areas where Databricks can share effectively with the outside world, guiding content creation and communication via presentations and blogs. Work across departments, integrating security practices into various aspects of the organization and product development lifecycle.

What we look for:

• Experience: Typically 12+ years of experience in security, with a strong focus on incident response, detection, and/or threat intelligence, or an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience. This includes deep expertise in Incident Management and Incident Response tool development.
• Cloud Security Expertise: Demonstrates knowledge of Azure and AWS cloud concepts, showing expertise in analyzing logs, correlating available log sources to conclude an attack scenario, and identifying logging gaps to suggest best configurations for IR needs. You can function as an architect of cloud deployment and map cloud environment fundamentals to other major providers.
• Digital Forensics: Highly skilled in multiple areas of digital forensics (e.g., Network, Application/Log Analysis, Host/Disk, Memory Forensics/Malware Analysis, Cloud Forensics, Endpoint Forensics), able to speak confidently on advanced concepts like virtualized networking, advanced network anomalies, and container forensics.
• Enterprise Security: Has a detailed understanding of enterprise security incidents and in-depth knowledge of malware on endpoints. Possesses expert understanding of MacOS security posture and architecture.
• Technical Depth: Proficient with SIEM and SOAR platforms, EDR solutions, and forensic analysis tools. Skilled in leveraging AI and automation technologies to enhance security operations and threat detection capabilities.
• Leadership & Communication: Exceptional ability to engage in difficult conversations, handle them appropriately, and exhibit empathy and emotional intelligence. Proven capability to build, mentor, and lead high-performing cybersecurity teams, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Strong communication of technical decisions through design docs and tech talks.
• Bias for Action & Collaboration: A history of proactively identifying and solving issues that impact the team and company. Demonstrates a strong desire to help peers and collaborate effectively.
• Customer/Stakeholder Obsessed: Able to push back or say no to unreasonable stakeholder requests in a professional and constructive manner.

REQ# FEQ326R286