Senior Security Data Engineer: Vulnerability Risk Mastery

Moderna; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive healthcare

Well-being resources (fitness/mindset)

Family planning benefits

Generous paid time off

Savings and investments

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Moderna seeks a Senior Security Data Engineer, Vulnerability Risk Management to own data products across ingestion, normalization, risk modeling, and reporting.

You will design pipelines, model-ready features, and governance signals while partnering with security, engineering, and platform teams to streamline remediation workflows.

This role emphasizes data quality, lineage, and continuous improvement in a regulated biotech environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, security data engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong hands-on proficiency with Python and SQL in production data pipeline environments.
• Experience designing, building, and operating ETL/ELT pipelines across heterogeneous source systems.
• Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, incremental processing, and data quality controls.
• Ability to work with messy, incomplete, or inconsistent datasets and make pragmatic normalization decisions.
• Experience supporting data products from source ingestion through reporting, analytics, model inputs, or decision-support outputs.
• Experience designing data models that support ownership routing, triage, workflow state, or operational decision-making.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable ingestion pipelines for asset, vulnerability, finding, remediation, threat intelligence, and business-context data sources.
• Build reusable ingestion patterns that can absorb new sources without brittle, one-off logic.
• Support batch and incremental processing patterns from raw source capture through normalized, model-ready data products.
• Partner with source-system owners to clarify schema changes, source freshness, field semantics, and operational constraints.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT Pipelines

Data Modeling

Data Quality

Ownership Routing

Communication

Job description

Moderna seeks a Senior Security Data Engineer, Vulnerability Risk Management to own data products across ingestion, normalization, risk modeling, and reporting.

You will design pipelines, model-ready features, and governance signals while partnering with security, engineering, and platform teams to streamline remediation workflows.

This role emphasizes data quality, lineage, and continuous improvement in a regulated biotech environment.