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Data Risk Engineer

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-04

Core

Implement and tune Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities, triage alerts, and manage data mishandling cases across SaaS, email, endpoints, and collaboration tools.

Role type

Individual contributor Data Risk Engineer

Builds

DLP rulesets, alert triage workflows, and data classification controls

Domain

Financial services / Data protection and privacy

Required skills

DLP implementation and tuning, alert triage and severity assessment, data classification, PII handling, SIEM and log analysis, regulatory framework knowledge (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, APPI), cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Fintech or trading platform experience, scripting/automation (Python, SQL), cloud platform experience, audit support experience, Insider Risk investigation exposure, AI data risk familiarity

Technologies

ELK/Elastic, Splunk, Google Workspace, Slack

Responsibilities

Implement and tune DLP across SaaS, email, endpoints, and collaboration tools; Triage and investigate DLP alerts to determine validity and next steps; Handle false positives and refine rulesets; Respond to user data mishandling with education and correction; Engage employees sharing sensitive data inappropriately; Partner with HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT on data incidents; Support audits and regulatory requirements; Assess risks from unauthorized AI tooling.

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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