Security Engineer III

Veeam; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 209,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Veeam is seeking a Security Engineer III to own threat detection across our cloud estate and to build the security data lake enabling fast incident response. The role sits in Platform Security and covers telemetry pipelines, detections, and guardrails in Azure and AWS, collaborating with SRE and Product Engineering to ship secure, scalable solutions.

You will design and deploy detections as code, automate triage, harden cloud environments, and deliver Terraform modules that stay fixed across

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, cloud operations, or detection engineering with hands-on ownership of production cloud security work
• Production Terraform experience with modules used by multiple teams; security in code
• Real operational depth in Azure and AWS: identity models, logging, networking, and defaults
• Demonstrated detection building: wrote detections against telemetry and validated them
• Strong cloud security fundamentals: RBAC, secret management, egress control, public-exposure prevention
• Fluency in a query language for security data (KQL/SQL) and ability to spot data-model issues
• Scripting and automation in Python or similar, building tooling beyond vendor configurations
• Track record of shipping production code or infrastructure; hands-on building role

Responsibilities

• Design and build the security data lake: decide telemetry sources, normalization, retention and cost
• Write, tune, and version-control detections as code; manage full lifecycle from hypothesis to deployment
• Build the response side with detections; automate triage and enrichment, improve MTTD/MTTR
• Hardening Azure and AWS: identity models, RBAC boundaries, logging, exposure control across tenants
• Deliver cloud security controls as Terraform; ensure fixes propagate across environments
• Turn findings into remediation queue, partner with resource owners for closure
• Run detection coverage assessments against threat frameworks and close gaps
• Set direction on detection and tooling choices, what to adopt or retire

Skills

Terraform modules

Azure & AWS security

Detection engineering

Python scripting

KQL/SQL querying

Security automation

RBAC & least privilege

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

OCSF/Sigma

Job description

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

About the Role

We're looking for a Security Engineer III to own how we detect and respond to threats across our cloud estate, and to build the security data lake that makes that possible. Our cloud-native SaaS platform runs on Microsoft Azure and AWS, delivering high-trust, secure data protection services to customers across regulated industries. This role sits in Platform Security and owns the detection engineering and cloud security surface end to end: the pipelines that get security telemetry into one queryable place, the detections that fire off it, and the guardrails in Azure and AWS that stop the finding from recurring. You'll partner closely with SRE, Product Engineering, and the rest of Security Engineering, and your work is based on shipped mechanisms rather than on advice given.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build our security data lake: decide what telemetry we ingest from Azure, AWS, SaaS, and endpoint sources, how it's normalized and retained, and what it costs, so that detection engineers and incident responders can answer questions in minutes instead of days
• Write, tune, and version-control detections as code. Own the full lifecycle: hypothesis, query, test, deploy through CI/CD, measure false-positive rate, and retire what stops earning its keep
• Build the response side with the detections. Automate triage and enrichment, wire runbooks into the tooling, and cut mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond on the alert classes that matter most
• Hands on hardening our Azure and AWS environments: identity and RBAC boundaries, network egress, key and secret handling, logging coverage, and public-exposure control across multiple tenants and accounts
• Deliver cloud security controls as Terraform. Anything you fix once should land in the modules and pipelines so it stays fixed, in every environment, without a human remembering
• Turn cloud security posture findings into a prioritized, owned, and closing queue. Partner with the teams that own the resources and make remediation the path of least resistance
• Run detection coverage assessments against a recognized threat framework, find the gaps that matter for our platform and threat model, and close them
• Set direction on detection and cloud security tooling: what to adopt, what to retire, and what we build ourselves

Technologies You’ll Work With

• Microsoft Sentinel, Log Analytics, and KQL for detection authoring and hunting
• Azure security services: Defender for Cloud, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Event Hubs
• AWS security services: CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM, Config, CloudWatch
• Terraform for all cloud security and detection infrastructure, with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps as the delivery path
• Wiz for cloud security posture, attack-path analysis, and vulnerability signal
• Security data lake and pipeline components: object storage (ADLS / S3), OCSF-style normalization, Azure Data Explorer or an equivalent query engine, and Azure Functions / Lambda for glue
• Python for detection tooling, enrichment, and automation, with comfort reading PowerShell and Bash
• Sigma and detection-as-code patterns, plus Git-based review for every rule change

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in security engineering, cloud operations, or detection engineering, with recent hands-on ownership of production cloud security work
• Production Terraform experience. You've written and maintained modules other teams consume, and you know why a security control belongs in code rather than in a runbook
• Real operational depth in both Azure and AWS: identity models, logging and audit sources, network boundaries, and where each provider's defaults leave you exposed
• Demonstrated detection building. You've written detections against real telemetry, tuned them against real false positives, and can explain a specific rule you shipped and how you validated it
• Strong cloud security fundamentals: RBAC and least privilege, secret and key management, egress control, and public-exposure prevention
• Fluency in at least one query language for security data (KQL, SQL, or equivalent) and the judgment to know when a query problem is actually a data-model problem
• Scripting and automation ability in Python or a comparable language, enough to build and maintain tooling rather than only configure vendor products
• A track record of shipping production code or infrastructure you can point to. This is a hands-on building role, not an advisory one

Bonus Skills

• Microsoft Sentinel at production scale: analytics rules, automation rules, ingestion cost management, and multi-workspace design
• Wiz experience, including turning posture and attack-path findings into an owned remediation workflow
• Incident response experience in a cloud environment, on-call or as an investigator
• Security data lake or SIEM migration experience, including cost and retention tradeoffs
• Kubernetes and container security exposure (AKS, EKS) and runtime detection for containerized workloads
• Familiarity with regulated-industry audit expectations (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HITRUST) and what auditors want from logging and monitoring controls
• Relevant certifications (Azure or AWS security specialty, GCIA, GCDA, or similar)

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What you’ll get

• Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
• Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
• Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O'Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Pay Transparency

Veeam is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. For this role, the compensation range below reflects the expected total target compensation (TTC), inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance-based bonus. For roles with a commission plan, the compensation range represents On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary plus variable commission. When determining compensation, Veeam takes into consideration factors such as experience, education, skills, and geographic zone. Offers are typically made below the midpoint of the range.

In addition to compensation, Veeam provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage, retirement plans, and unlimited time off.

Compensation Range (TTC / OTE)

$208,500 - $347,500 USD

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