Staff Security Data Science Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive compensation

Equity

Flexible workplace

Career progression

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer to make the data behind Cyber Defense’s detections and investigations trustworthy and to uncover threats the team might otherwise miss. This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Cyber Defense.

You’ll work across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, vulnerability, SaaS and internal platform telemetry, partnering with the teams that generate the data and with Security Operations, which uses it and provides feedback on alert

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, data science, detection engineering, security analytics, or related technical field.
• Built and operated security data pipelines with APIs and event sources.
• Experience with cloud warehouses and streaming systems like BigQuery and Kafka; measurable data quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the data inventory of security-relevant sources and gaps.
• Build idempotent batch and streaming data collection with backfill and replay.
• Develop behavioral baselines and cross-source analyses for detections.
• Collaborate with Security Operations to turn analytics into actionable signals.

Skills

Data engineering

Data science

Detection engineering

Security analytics

Security data pipelines

Tools

BigQuery

Kafka

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer to make the data behind Cyber Defense’s detections and investigations trustworthy and to uncover threats the team might otherwise miss. This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Cyber Defense.

You’ll work across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, vulnerability, SaaS and internal platform telemetry, partnering with the teams that generate the data and with Security Operations, which uses it and provides feedback on alert