Security Analytics Engineer

VulnU; EE. UU.; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Equity

Home-office stipend

Descripción de la vacante

Backblaze is seeking a Security Analytics Engineer to design, operate, and continually improve its security telemetry, analytics, detection engineering, and observability capabilities in a fully remote team. You will help extend SIEM and apply AI-assisted correlation to protect data across endpoints, clouds, and applications.

This role requires hands‑on experience with large‑scale telemetry, event normalization, dashboards, and alerting, plus scripting and IaC skills to automate workflows with

Formación

• Experience engineering large-scale security telemetry systems.
• Knowledge of logging, event correlation, normalization, enrichment, and security data pipelines.
• Scripting or software development with APIs and IaC.
• Experience with cloud environments and distributed architectures.

Responsabilidades

• Design and operate scalable security analytics platforms and telemetry pipelines.
• Integrate, normalize, enrich, and correlate telemetry from endpoint, identity, cloud, application, infrastructure, network, and AI-enabled systems.
• Develop and tune behavioral detections, correlation logic, dashboards, and alerting strategies.
• Translate threat intel, incidents, vulnerabilities, and offensive-security results into improved detection content.
• Automate telemetry management and security workflows while maintaining human oversight and explainability.
• Optimize SIEM and related systems for reliability, data quality, performance, retention, and cost.

Conocimientos

SIEM & security analytics

Telemetry & observability

APIs & IaC scripting

Herramientas

APIs

Infrastructure-as-Code tooling

Descripción del empleo

# Security Analytics EngineerBackblaze · backblaze.comCategory: Security EngineeringLocation: Remote## Quality of lifeWhat the posting states. Hover or tap a perk to see the line it came from.* Paid parental leave* Flexible PTO* Equity* Home-office stipendSecurity Analytics EngineerRole OverviewThe Security Analytics Engineer designs, operates, and continuously improves the organization's security telemetry, analytics, detection engineering, and observability capabilities. The role provides the data and analytics foundation used by Security Operations while extending traditional SIEM capabilities through behavioral analytics, automation, AI-assisted correlation, and observability for autonomous and agentic systems.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and operate scalable security analytics platforms and telemetry pipelines.Integrate, normalize, enrich, and correlate telemetry from endpoint, identity, cloud, application, infrastructure, network, and AI-enabled systems.Develop and tune behavioral detections, correlation logic, dashboards, and alerting strategies.Translate threat intelligence, incidents, vulnerability findings, and offensive-security results into improved detection content.Build observability for AI agents and autonomous workflows, including identity, tool usage, execution activity, and security-relevant behavior.Apply AI-assisted techniques to log analysis, correlation, anomaly detection, enrichment, and investigation support.Automate telemetry management and security workflows while maintaining appropriate human oversight and explainability.Optimize SIEM and related systems platform reliability, data quality, performance, retention, and cost.QualificationsExperience engineering SIEM, security analytics, detection, observability, or large-scale telemetry systems.Strong knowledge of logging, event correlation, normalization, enrichment, and security data pipelines.Experience developing detections, behavioral analytics, or correlation logic.Experience integrating security telemetry from diverse enterprise and cloud environments.Scripting or software-development experience and familiarity with APIs and Infrastructure-as-Code.Understanding of modern cloud and distributed architectures.Familiarity with security telemetry standards, MITRE ATT CK, AI-assisted analytics, or observability of AI/agentic systems is preferred.To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.