Senior Data Security Engineer - Cloud Data Protection Lead

OhioX; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Root is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead the Data Security domain and help define how we protect sensitive policyholder and corporate data in cloud-native environments. You will partner with Data Platform, Analytics, Engineering, Security Operations, and GRC to implement data classification, encryption, masking, and access controls.

This hands-on role automates security workflows, builds reference architectures, supports SOC 2 readiness, and translates regulatory requirements into

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data security, cloud security, security engineering, privacy engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience securing data in cloud environments and applying controls across storage, processing, analytics, and data-sharing systems.
• Experience with IAM, RBAC/ABAC, encryption, KMS/HSM, data classification, DLP, data discovery, access reviews, tokenization, masking, retention, deletion, backup security, and audit logging.
• Experience embedding security requirements into data platforms, data pipelines, analytics workflows, or application architectures.
• Experience cross-functional with engineering, data platform, analytics, infrastructure, Security Operations, Privacy, Legal, or GRC teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish data security strategy and roadmap for sensitive data across policyholder, customer, employee, and corporate data.
• Protect PII, financial, health data where applicable, and other regulated data across its full lifecycle.
• Embed security controls into data pipelines, warehouses, data lakes, reporting platforms, and ML workflows.
• Design and improve data access governance, including least privilege and RBAC/ABAC.
• Automate security workflows using scripting, APIs, policy-as-code, and approved AI-assisted tools.

Skills

Data security

Cloud security

Security engineering

IAM

RBAC/ABAC

Encryption

DLP

Data classification

Audit logging

Automation

Policy-as-code

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

Root is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead the Data Security domain and help define how we protect sensitive policyholder and corporate data in cloud-native environments. You will partner with Data Platform, Analytics, Engineering, Security Operations, and GRC to implement data classification, encryption, masking, and access controls.

This hands-on role automates security workflows, builds reference architectures, supports SOC 2 readiness, and translates regulatory requirements into