Senior Security Engineer, DFIR

The role

You will perform digital forensics and incident response to investigate threats affecting the ClickUp platform and internal systems. You will build AI-assisted and agentic workflows, develop product defenses, and partner with engineering teams to implement automated controls.

What you will do

• Investigate threats affecting the ClickUp platform and internal systems
• Collect and analyze relevant evidence to establish impact
• Lead investigations through findings, response and root cause
• Identify and respond to platform abuse
• Develop actionable threat intelligence
• Build and improve AI-assisted and agentic workflows for incident response and forensics
• Automate repeatable investigation work
• Design, develop and deploy controls that protect product and internal systems
• Work with engineering, product, data and operations teams as a security player-coach
• Mentor others on technical topics

Required qualifications

• Multiple years of experience in technology or software development, including building and maintaining tooling or automation
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development or agentic workflows for engineering or security work
• Experience investigating security threats or platform abuse
• Ability to translate a security finding into a practical software design change, response improvement or automated control
• Experience working with cloud or SaaS systems
• Clear written communication
• Ability to build relationships and mentor others on technical topics

Nice to have

• Experience using AI agents in a SOC or other incident response workflows
• Understanding of agent security risks, including the confused deputy problem and the lethal trifecta
• You can facilitate a conversation rather than dictate it
• 3+ years of software development experience and 1+ year of security-specific experience
• Experience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, RASP, dependency checkers and SIEM
• 1 year of AWS experience, including IAM and least-privilege architectures

Before you apply

• AI fluency is evaluated as part of the hiring process
• Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed and is based on business needs

About the company

ClickUp is an AI-native company building a converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search.