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Data Platform Engineer, Cybersecurity Operations

IRVING, Texas, United States of AmericaFull-time$156k2026-09-29 → 2026-11-10
Based in United States

Core

Architect and operate scalable data pipelines, storage backbones, and data lakes to ingest, normalize, and serve massive volumes of SOC telemetry for next-generation cybersecurity operations.

Role type

Senior IC data platform engineer (cybersecurity)

Builds

High-throughput batch and streaming pipelines, data lakes, and storage backbones for security analytics

Domain

Cybersecurity operations / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Data platform architecture, large-scale pipeline engineering (Kafka, Spark, Flink), data lake/warehouse design (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Snowflake), cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), security telemetry normalization, Python/Go/Java, schema governance, CI/CD, observability

Preferred skills

SOC/SIEM/XDR environment experience, AI/ML pipeline requirements, open table formats (Hudi)

Technologies

Cribl, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Design and operate scalable data pipelines for security telemetry; develop normalization logic for heterogeneous SOC data; architect storage backbones for SOC data; optimize data lake infrastructure; integrate data into analytics platforms and SIEM/XDR tools; tune pipeline throughput and query performance; implement monitoring and self-healing capabilities; define data schemas and taxonomies; automate onboarding of new telemetry sources; ensure secure handling and compliance of security data; collaborate with security operations and data science teams; maintain architecture documentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC