Engineering - Dallas - Associate, Security Engineering - 10427759

Socket.dev; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Services LLC in Dallas, Texas is seeking an Associate, Security Engineering to design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and streaming pipelines for security data across on-premises and AWS.

The role focuses on secure data models, real-time alerting, data quality, and observability, with CI/CD automation, containerized deployment, and threat-informed risk assessments across enterprise platforms. Strong background in Kafka, Spark, SQL, and Python is required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Cyber Security, CS, or related field with 1 year of security engineering experience, or a Bachelor's with 3 years in security engineering.
• Experience with application security best practices (OWASP/CWE) and secure design reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments.
• Experience building large-scale data ingestion pipelines using Kafka, Spark, SQL, and Python across on-prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and streaming pipelines for security data across on-premises data centers and AWS.
• Develop and optimize data models, schemas, and warehouse structures for real-time alerting, incident response, and analytics.
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and observability for reliable pipelines.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing, deployment, and delivery of data apps and infrastructure.
• Deploy, administer, and scale data systems using Kubernetes for high availability and fault tolerance.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

OWASP

Cloud security

Kafka

Spark

SQL

Python

Data governance

Education

Master's degree in Cyber Security, CS, or related

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, CS, or related

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Spark

Trino

Hive

BigQuery

Job description

Job Duties:Associate, Security EngineeringwithGoldman Sachs Services LLC inDallas, Texas.Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and streaming pipelines to collect, transform, enrich, and load large volumes of security data across on-premises data centers and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments. Develop and optimize data models, schemas, and data warehouse structures to support real-time alerting, incident response, analytical reporting, and data science initiatives related to cyber threat detection. Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure reliable, accurate, and uninterrupted data pipelines. Develop and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and delivery of data applications and infrastructure. Deploy, administer, and scale data systems and infrastructure using container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes to support high-availability, fault-tolerant data processing at enterprise scale. Perform security assessments of business-initiated projects to enforce secure design, including data models, cryptography, and regulatory compliance. Perform application vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and code/architecture reviews for web applications. Identify security gaps and advise on controls for client/server, cloud, web, and mobile systems, including third‑party integrations against firm policies and standards. Partner with global security teams to enhance telemetry, detection tools, and overall cyber defense capabilities. Research, evaluate and implement data engineering and security tools through proof‑of‑concepts and recommend solutions that improve platform capabilities, scalability, and efficiency. Collaborate cross‑functionally to define data requirements, manage data streams, and resolve platform issues. Contribute to architecture decisions and communicate technical insights, risks, and status clearly.

Job Requirements:Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related Security Engineering role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related Security Engineering role. Prior work experience must include one (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) or three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with each of the following: technical understanding of both application and infrastructure architecture and security (on premise and Cloud); working with application security best practices including OWASP and CWE; working with application security vulnerabilities and controls to remediate risks; assessing and mitigating software security threat vectors, threat modeling, attack surface analysis, security design reviews, source code reviews, penetration testing or vulnerability assessments; working in shift left environment to help embed security in Design phase to implement security controls within system architecture; conducting infrastructure or application security risk assessments; and design, development, and optimization of large-scale distributed data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines using Apache Kafka, Apache Spark (batch and streaming), SQL, and Python, including data modeling and schema design across platforms such as Trino, Hive, and BigQuery.

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