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Principal Security Engineer

Los Angeles, CA💼 Full-time💰 $203,000–$203,000🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead a 24x7 security operations and detection & response team for a self-clearing broker-dealer, managing incident response, monitoring strategy, and security tooling.

Role type

Senior IC Security Operations Manager (SOC/MDR)

Builds

24x7 security monitoring program, incident response capabilities, detection engineering, and security tooling stack

Domain

Financial services / Wealth management / Cybersecurity

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Security operations leadership, incident response, SIEM management, EDR/MDR management, cloud telemetry analysis, SOAR automation, threat intelligence ingestion, SOC metrics definition, team mentorship

Preferred skills

Regulated environment experience (SEC/FINRA), 24x7 SOC build-out experience, relevant security certifications

Technologies

Datadog, Splunk, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor the security operations/detection & response team; Own the 24x7 security monitoring strategy; Run the end-to-end incident response program; Define and report on SecOps metrics and SLAs; Mature detection engineering and response automation; Drive tabletop and purple-team exercises.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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