Incident Responder, Baobab
German speaking
+ equity
2 days a week in office
Cyber protection for SMEs
Be an early applicant
Cyber protection for SMEs
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ equity
2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To protect the European economy from cyber risks posed by professional hacker groups through cyber insurance and cyber security measures.
Role
Who you are
- Professional working proficiency in German and English for client discussions, written updates and coordination with international response partners
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in IT support, systems administration, recovery or incident response
- Experience using SIEM, EDR and forensic tools, such as Windows Defender for Business, Splunk, CrowdStrike, Velociraptor, X-Ways, KAPE, Hayabusa, SOF-ELK or OpenRelik. (These are examples; experience with comparable tools is equally relevant.)
- Basic experience documenting technical work in tickets, change logs or recovery notes
- Practical experience using AI tools for technical tasks, such as information extraction, log analysis or agentic workflows
- Openness to coaching and feedback, and motivation to develop your security and investigation skills
- German - business fluent
- English - business fluent
Desirable
- Strong practical restoration experience, ideally with SMEs or small IT teams
- Hands-on troubleshooting and backup or restore knowledge, with willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies
- Familiarity with threat hunting and using threat intelligence to guide investigations, prioritize suspicious activity and assess indicators of compromise
What the job involves
- Execute containment and forensic investigation of ransomware, business email compromise and other incidents: preserve evidence, analyse host and identity logs, and develop findings with specialist guidance
- Support systems restoration after cyber incidents: assess backups, rebuild servers and endpoints, resolve dependencies and validate services before returning them to use
- Work with client IT teams and managed service providers across Windows, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, virtualisation and backup environments
- Document technical work and communicate progress, uncertainties and blockers, escalating risks to the lead
- Put cutting-edge AI tools to work in investigations, recovery and automation. Experiment with new approaches, validate results and help shape how the team adopts them, while protecting incident data
- Improve recovery checklists, scripts and playbooks by sharing lessons from casework
Our take
Most businesses are aware that cybersecurity software must be used to protect themselves against cyberattacks, but few are aware of the sheer variety of attacks present in today's digital landscape. This makes it increasingly difficult for businesses to equip sufficient protection, resulting in worldwide cyber attacks in 2021 alone costing over $6T.
Baobab insures businesses for cyberattacks, using its team of cybersecurity experts to assess companies for risk, secure their business, and prevent financial loss. The company's approach to risk assessment not only protects companies against cyber threats themselves but also prevents them from having to spend time, money, and resources on evaluating their own cyber security stack.
Several other cybersecurity insurance companies seek to protect businesses from cyber threats, but Baobab has taken a unique approach by providing solutions for not just enterprises, but small businesses, too. By taking care of this end-to-end process, Baobab is preventing businesses from having to spend time and resources on dealing with cybersecurity themselves, leaving them with more time to scale.
Kirsty
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2025
$13.5m
SERIES A
Jan 2023
$3.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $20.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible work options - you work from home or our offices in Berlin and Cologne
- 28 Vacation Days - plus Christmas Eve & New Year’s Eve
- Competitive Compensation - Attractive salary & equity options
- Financial Support - subsidized Germany ticket and Wellpass membership, company pension support and corporate benefit access
- Continuous Learning - Support for your professional growth and development, both internally and through access to the Udemy Business platform
- Team & Social Events - Regular team events to get the entire team together from across Germany
- Challenging & Supportive Culture - Work with motivated colleagues in an environment where you can grow, achieve, and enjoy the journey
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Vincenz Klemm
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated The Johns Hopkins University in 2015. Experience as co-founder of Gabi from 2016 to 2020. Co-founded Baobab as CEO in 2021.
Anton Foth
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Engineering Lead and CTO for BCG Digital Ventures. CTO of Coya from 2019 to 2021. Co-founded Baobab as CTO in 2021.
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