Senior Database Engineer – Security & Data Resilience (Remote)

VulnU; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget

Remote work

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Senior Database Engineer focused on security and data-platform resilience. You will apply engineering expertise to identify and mitigate exposure risks across data stores, warehouses, and storage, partnering with data platform, cloud, and cybersecurity teams.

You’ll apply CTEM principles to reduce unauthorized access and data exfiltration, while improving visibility of attack paths and strengthening access controls enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• Interest in developing deeper expertise in data security, attack-path analysis, and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).
• Strong hands-on experience in database engineering, database administration, or data-platform engineering.
• Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL database technologies and their configuration and operations.
• Solid understanding of database authentication, authorization, roles, permissions, and access models.
• Experience troubleshooting complex database or data-platform issues using queries, logs, or other technical data.
• Knowledge of database hardening, encryption, vulnerability remediation, or related security considerations.
• Ability to analyze complex issues and translate them into practical engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Apply database and data-platform engineering expertise across RDBMS, NoSQL, data warehouses, object storage, and related data services.
• Analyze configurations, permissions, access models, storage, encryption, and service-to-service access through a security lens.
• Investigate issues like broad access, stale entitlements, misconfigured storage, and weak auditability.
• Identify attack paths that could lead to unauthorized data access or privilege escalation.
• Partner with data platform, cloud, and security teams to develop remediation strategies and guardrails.
• Help prioritize issues by exploitability and business impact to reduce recurring risks.

Skills

CTEM exposure

Database engineering

RDBMS/NoSQL

Access control

Query analysis

Database hardening

Collaboration

Job description

Allstate is seeking a Senior Database Engineer focused on security and data-platform resilience. You will apply engineering expertise to identify and mitigate exposure risks across data stores, warehouses, and storage, partnering with data platform, cloud, and cybersecurity teams.

You’ll apply CTEM principles to reduce unauthorized access and data exfiltration, while improving visibility of attack paths and strengthening access controls enterprise-wide.