Security Data Engineer - Remote

Overview

UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. Founded and operated by security practitioners with decades of experience, the UltraViolet Cyber security-as-code platform combines technology innovation and human expertise to make advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations by eliminating risks of separate red and blue teams.

In Short

• Design and build scalable batch and streaming data pipelines for ingesting telemetry, log, and event data
• Develop and maintain orchestration workflows using tools like Apache Airflow or similar schedulers
• Use tools like Cribl, Logstash, Fluentd, or similar for data routing, filtering, and enrichment at scale
• Onboard new data sources, build connectors (API/Kafka/file-based), and normalize security-related datasets
• Monitor and manage schema drift across changing source systems and formats
• Implement observability into pipelines — logging, metrics, and alerts for health and performance
• Optimize ingestion for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency
• Collaborate across detection, threat intel, and platform teams to align ingestion with security use cases

Requirements

• 8​+ years of experience in data engineering or infrastructure roles focused on pipeline development
• Strong experience with Python and distributed data processing tools like Apache Spark or PySpark
• Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Apache Airflow, Dagster, or similar
• Deep understanding of ingestion best practices, schema evolution, and drift handling
• Experience working with Kafka, S3, or cloud-native storage and messaging systems
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Bonus: Familiarity with security tools (e.g., Crowdstrike, Wiz), OCSF, or compliance-related data

Benefits

• Make a difference in the cybersecurity landscape
• Work with a team of experienced security practitioners
• Opportunity to innovate in a fast-paced environment
• Access to advanced security operations solutions
• Flexible work arrangements