Senior Security Engineer – Data Pipeline & Observability - Mid-Atlantic region (Remote)

guidepointsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental plan options

Flexible time off

Phone and home internet allowances

Retirement plan eligibility

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking a remote Security Data Platform Engineer to design and deliver observability data pipelines for client environments across the US. You will work on architecture, implementation, migration, and advisory work, with outcomes tied to risk reduction and faster investigations.

You will build telemetry pipelines using Cribl or similar platforms, ingest logs from diverse sources, and design cost-aware data retention and routing. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering data pipelines across multiple platforms and advising on fit.
• Ability to explain architecture, costs, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and delivery practices (Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiar with data platforms (Kafka, object storage/data lakes, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Understanding telemetry and security data needs, including detection engineering.
• Willingness to travel up to 15% and work remotely in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and tune telemetry pipelines using Cribl or comparable data pipeline platforms.
• Ingest, parse, and normalize logs and events from various sources into common schemas.
• Design filtering, enrichment, routing, retention, and replay to balance analytics value and costs.
• Plan resilient deployments with HA, DR, backpressure, fleet monitoring.
• Protect sensitive data through masking, access controls, encryption, retention policies.
• Lead data work for SIEM or platform migrations; document designs, provide health assessments, briefing stakeholders.

Skills

Data pipeline design

Executive communication

Remote work capability

Security and telemetry knowledge

Cloud/data observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Git

CI/CD

Cribl

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Role overview

Design and deliver security and observability data pipelines for client environments, helping teams improve data quality, control analytics costs, and make useful telemetry available where it is needed. The work spans architecture, implementation, migration, and advisory support, with recommendations tied to business outcomes such as risk reduction and investigation speed. The position is remote within the United States, focused on the Mid-Atlantic region, with travel of up to 15%.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and tune telemetry pipelines using Cribl or comparable data pipeline platforms.
• Ingest, parse, and normalize logs and events from infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, and network sources into common schemas.
• Design filtering, enrichment, routing, retention, and replay approaches that balance analytics value with storage and ingest costs.
• Plan resilient deployments, including capacity, high availability, disaster recovery, backpressure, and fleet monitoring.
• Protect sensitive data through masking, access controls, encryption, and retention policies.
• Lead data work for SIEM or platform migrations; document designs, provide health assessments, and brief technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• Delivery experience with more than one data pipeline platform and the judgment to recommend an appropriate fit.
• Ability to explain architecture, findings, costs, and recommendations to both technical teams and executives.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and delivery practices such as Kubernetes or containers, Terraform or Ansible, Git, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with data platforms and destinations such as Kafka, object storage or data lakes, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Understanding of telemetry and security data needs, including the requirements of detection engineering.
• Ability to work remotely in the United States and travel up to 15%.

Nice to have

• Relevant platform or cloud certifications.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and IT observability use cases.
• Work in regulated or federal environments; ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance is a plus.

Benefits and work setup

Remote-first U.S. role with some travel. Listed benefits include medical and dental plan options, flexible time off, corporate holidays, phone and home internet allowances, and retirement plan eligibility.