Staff Security Data Engineer: Detection & Trust

Nscale; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + bonus + equity

Dynamic progression plan

Flexible workplace

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to ensure trust in Cyber Defense data and uncover hidden threats. This hands-on IC reports to the Director, Cyber Defense and works across endpoint, identity, cloud, networks, vulnerabilities, and SaaS telemetry.

You’ll build data pipelines, baselines, and cross-source analyses to create usable detections; you’ll ensure data quality, guard against late or partial feeds, and collaborate with Security Ops to tune signals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, data science, detection engineering, security analytics or related field
• Experience building security data pipelines with APIs and event sources, including idempotent loads, partitioning, backfill and replay
• Proficiency with cloud warehouses and streaming systems (e.g., BigQuery and Kafka) and measurable data quality
• Understanding of security telemetry across identity, endpoint, cloud, networks, vulnerabilities and SaaS logs
• Ability to apply statistical or machine‑learning methods to security analysis and translate results into detections
• Ability to negotiate access, schemas and collection cadences with source teams and explain gaps clearly to analysts and leaders

Responsibilities

• Own data inventory and collection across security-relevant sources; define conventions and lineage
• Build and operate idempotent batch and streaming collection from APIs and event streams
• Monitor freshness, volume, completeness, and data quality; make issues visible to owners
• Develop behavioral baselines, anomaly detection and cross-source correlations for investigations
• Prepare datasets for AI-assisted analysis with proper provenance and access controls
• Collaborate with Security Operations to translate findings into actionable signals

Skills

Data engineering

Security analytics

Detection engineering

BigQuery

Kafka

Tools

BigQuery

Kafka

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to ensure trust in Cyber Defense data and uncover hidden threats. This hands-on IC reports to the Director, Cyber Defense and works across endpoint, identity, cloud, networks, vulnerabilities, and SaaS telemetry.

You’ll build data pipelines, baselines, and cross-source analyses to create usable detections; you’ll ensure data quality, guard against late or partial feeds, and collaborate with Security Ops to tune signals.