Security Data Engineer: Threat Detection & Analytics

nscaleoperationsukltd; United States; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Potential bonus

Equity

Medical

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

nscaleoperationsukltd is seeking a hands-on security data engineer to build dependable data foundations for defenders. You will handle telemetry collection, data quality, behavioral analysis, and practical detection work, focusing on visibility of uncertainty and coverage gaps for responders.

You will inventory data sources, develop batch and streaming pipelines, monitor quality, and support incident investigations with defensible timelines.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with data pipelines, schemas, and security analysis.
• Ability to communicate data coverage gaps clearly to analysts, engineers, and leaders.
• Ability to work with source-system owners to agree on access, schemas, and collection schedules.
• A practical approach to creating repeatable methods for the wider team.

Responsibilities

• Inventory security data sources and document ownership, collection methods, freshness, coverage limits, and gaps.
• Build and operate batch and streaming pipelines from APIs, event streams, object stores, and internal systems, with support for detecting partial or late data, schema changes, backfills, and replay.
• Monitor data quality, including completeness, freshness, duplicates, schema drift, and consistency; route issues to accountable owners.
• Develop and evaluate behavioral baselines, anomaly analysis, and correlations across sources with Security Operations to improve signals.
• Support incident investigations with defensible timelines and scope, turning analysis into repeatable queries or detections.
• Prepare data sets for AI-assisted analysis with proper access controls, provenance, freshness indicators, and safe handling of missing data.

Skills

Data pipelines

Schemas

Security analysis

Communication

Incident investigations

Job description

nscaleoperationsukltd is seeking a hands-on security data engineer to build dependable data foundations for defenders. You will handle telemetry collection, data quality, behavioral analysis, and practical detection work, focusing on visibility of uncertainty and coverage gaps for responders.

You will inventory data sources, develop batch and streaming pipelines, monitor quality, and support incident investigations with defensible timelines.