Remote Senior Security Engineer - Data Pipelines

guidepointsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental plan options

Flexible time off

Phone and home internet allowances

Retirement plan eligibility

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking a remote Security Data Platform Engineer to design and deliver observability data pipelines for client environments across the US. You will work on architecture, implementation, migration, and advisory work, with outcomes tied to risk reduction and faster investigations.

You will build telemetry pipelines using Cribl or similar platforms, ingest logs from diverse sources, and design cost-aware data retention and routing. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering data pipelines across multiple platforms and advising on fit.
• Ability to explain architecture, costs, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and delivery practices (Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiar with data platforms (Kafka, object storage/data lakes, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Understanding telemetry and security data needs, including detection engineering.
• Willingness to travel up to 15% and work remotely in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and tune telemetry pipelines using Cribl or comparable data pipeline platforms.
• Ingest, parse, and normalize logs and events from various sources into common schemas.
• Design filtering, enrichment, routing, retention, and replay to balance analytics value and costs.
• Plan resilient deployments with HA, DR, backpressure, fleet monitoring.
• Protect sensitive data through masking, access controls, encryption, retention policies.
• Lead data work for SIEM or platform migrations; document designs, provide health assessments, briefing stakeholders.

Skills

Data pipeline design

Executive communication

Remote work capability

Security and telemetry knowledge

Cloud/data observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Git

CI/CD

Cribl

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

OpenTelemetry

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking a remote Security Data Platform Engineer to design and deliver observability data pipelines for client environments across the US. You will work on architecture, implementation, migration, and advisory work, with outcomes tied to risk reduction and faster investigations.

You will build telemetry pipelines using Cribl or similar platforms, ingest logs from diverse sources, and design cost-aware data retention and routing. Travel up to 15% is expected.