Senior Security Engineer – Data Pipeline & Observability - Mid-Atlantic region (Remote)

Role overview Design and deliver security and observability data pipelines for client environments, helping teams improve data quality, control analytics costs, and make useful telemetry available where it is needed. The work spans architecture, implementation, migration, and advisory support, with recommendations tied to business outcomes such as risk reduction and investigation speed. The position is remote within the United States, focused on the Mid-Atlantic region, with travel of up to 15%.

Responsibilities - Build, deploy, and tune telemetry pipelines using Cribl or comparable data pipeline platforms. - Ingest, parse, and normalize logs and events from infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, and network sources into common schemas. - Design filtering, enrichment, routing, retention, and replay approaches that balance analytics value with storage and ingest costs. - Plan resilient deployments, including capacity, high availability, disaster recovery, backpressure, and fleet monitoring. - Protect sensitive data through masking, access controls, encryption, and retention policies. - Lead data work for SIEM or platform migrations; document designs, provide health assessments, and brief technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements - Delivery experience with more than one data pipeline platform and the judgment to recommend an appropriate fit. - Ability to explain architecture, findings, costs, and recommendations to both technical teams and executives. - Experience with infrastructure automation and delivery practices such as Kubernetes or containers, Terraform or Ansible, Git, and CI/CD. - Familiarity with data platforms and destinations such as Kafka, object storage or data lakes, Snowflake, or Databricks. - Understanding of telemetry and security data needs, including the requirements of detection engineering. - Ability to work remotely in the United States and travel up to 15%.

Nice to have - Relevant platform or cloud certifications. - Experience with OpenTelemetry and IT observability use cases. - Work in regulated or federal environments; ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance is a plus.

Benefits and work setup Remote-first U.S. role with some travel. Listed benefits include medical and dental plan options, flexible time off, corporate holidays, phone and home internet allowances, and retirement plan eligibility.