Senior Data Protection Engineer - DLP & Cloud Security

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Parental and family leave policies

Mental and physical wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Point72’s Technology team is transforming its IT infrastructure, embracing open-source solutions, cloud architectures, and AI-driven platforms to empower smarter decision making in a multi-billion-dollar global business. As a Security Engineer, you will own the control estate for Infrastructure Security, implementing DLP, labeling, and data access governance across on-prem and cloud data stores.

You will work with colleagues to extend coverage to databases and SaaS apps, while automating policy

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering with focus on data protection or DLP
• Hands-on experience with data protection platforms and policies
• Experience with endpoints, cloud storage, and collaboration platforms
• Experience with secure web gateways and CASB tools
• Knowledge of data classification frameworks and regulatory requirements
• Commitment to high ethical standards

Responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise DLP controls across endpoints, email, and cloud storage
• Deploy data protection policies across email, storage, and endpoints
• Maintain classification taxonomy, sensitivity labels, auto-labeling rules, and trainable classifiers
• Administer data access governance and least-privilege remediation
• Extend protection to databases, SaaS apps, and cloud object storage
• Integrate egress controls with secure gateways and CASB solutions
• Tune policies to reduce false positives while preserving coverage
• Operate incident workflows for alert triage and evidence retention
• Automate policy deployment and remediation via scripting and APIs
• Maintain data protection standards and change control

Skills

Security engineering

Data protection

Data loss prevention

Scripting

Cloud security

Tools

Microsoft Purview

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Point72’s Technology team is transforming its IT infrastructure, embracing open-source solutions, cloud architectures, and AI-driven platforms to empower smarter decision making in a multi-billion-dollar global business. As a Security Engineer, you will own the control estate for Infrastructure Security, implementing DLP, labeling, and data access governance across on-prem and cloud data stores.

You will work with colleagues to extend coverage to databases and SaaS apps, while automating policy