Senior Security Data Engineer — Hybrid SaaS & AI Analytics

Obsidiansecurity; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 91,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Comprehensive healthcare with dental and vision

Flexible paid time off

12 weeks of new parent or family leave

Personal and professional development resources

Job summary

Obsidiansecurity is looking for Security Data Engineers in Manchester to enhance our SaaS and AI security platform. This technically demanding role focuses on building data pipelines for detection and analytics, requiring strong data engineering skills.

Ideal candidates will possess over four years of experience in data engineering with a focus on SQL and REST APIs. Our hybrid work model enables flexibility while working with a leading SaaS security team committed to innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including dbt and SQL.
• Strong SQL—comfortable writing complex data models and transformations.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines processing high-volume data.
• Comfortable working with REST APIs for third-party integrations.
• Python proficiency for scripting, data manipulation, and logic.
• Some exposure to security concepts—understand 'risky' contexts.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data retrieval integrations across SaaS platforms.
• Design and develop dbt models in SQL on Clickhouse and Databricks.
• Build rule-based checks to identify risky configurations.
• Develop understanding of SaaS and AI platform structures.
• Debug data quality issues in customer environments.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

REST APIs

Python

Security concepts

Tools

Clickhouse

Databricks

Job description

Obsidiansecurity is looking for Security Data Engineers in Manchester to enhance our SaaS and AI security platform. This technically demanding role focuses on building data pipelines for detection and analytics, requiring strong data engineering skills.

Ideal candidates will possess over four years of experience in data engineering with a focus on SQL and REST APIs. Our hybrid work model enables flexibility while working with a leading SaaS security team committed to innovative solutions.