State Street Corporation

Senior SIEM Data Engineer

Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in SIEM engineering, cybersecurity data engineering, or log analytics.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Splunk or similar SIEM platforms.
  • 3+ years with Cribl Stream or data pipeline technologies.
  • 2+ years with Databricks or large-scale analytics platforms.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain scalable SIEM and security telemetry pipelines.
  • Lead onboarding of security telemetry from diverse sources.
  • Analyze source logs and define onboarding requirements.
  • Optimize telemetry pipelines for performance and data quality.
  • Deliver reliable security telemetry to analytics platforms.
  • Validate data quality across cyber data platforms.
  • Automate deployment and pipeline testing using CI/CD practices.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with in-office presence as needed.
  • Standard working hours with flexibility for operational support.
  • Opportunities for mentorship and leading initiatives.
Full Job Description

Who we are looking for

We are lookingfor aSenior SIEM Data Engineerreporting directly to theCyber Data Engineering Manager. You will lead the design, onboarding, transformation, validation, and operational support of cybersecurity telemetry and enterprise log data used for security monitoring, analytics, reporting, incident response, and cyber data science use cases.

This role is focused on understanding diverse enterprise data sources, designing scalable security telemetry pipelines, improving log fidelity and data quality, and ensuring reliable delivery of high-value data into cyber data platforms such as Splunk, Databricks, and other SIEM or cyber analytics platforms. You will work closely with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and data engineering teams to ensure security telemetry isaccurate, complete, searchable, governed, and fit for purpose. As a senior engineer, you will also help define onboarding standards, mentor engineers, drive operational maturity, support complex troubleshooting, and contribute to the evolution of enterprise cyber data engineering capabilities.

What you willbe responsible for

AsSeniorSIEM Data Engineeryou will:

  • Design, build, andmaintainscalable SIEM and security telemetry pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

  • Lead onboarding of security telemetry from applications, infrastructure, endpoints, identity platforms, network devices, cloud services, SaaS tools, databases, and security products.

  • Analyze source log formats and define onboarding requirements, expected fields, metadata, routing needs, retention considerations, and downstream SIEM/analytics use cases.

  • Build andoptimizetelemetry pipelines for parsing, filtering, masking, enrichment, normalization, event breaking, metadata tagging, and multi-destination routing.

  • Deliver reliable security telemetry toSplunk, Databricks, and other SIEM or cyber analytics platforms.

  • Design and support Databricks data engineering patterns across raw, enriched, curated, and analytics-ready data layers.

  • Validate data quality across cyber data platforms for freshness, completeness, correctness, availability, timestamp accuracy, schema consistency, source attribution, routing accuracy, and latency.

  • Establish SIEM onboarding standards for source classification, source types, index routing, taxonomy alignment, metadata tagging, schema expectations, CIM/ECS alignment, and data quality controls.

  • Optimizetelemetry pipelines to reduce noise, control ingestion cost, improve performance, and preserve high-value security data for detection and investigation.

  • Lead troubleshooting of complex ingestion and data flow issues across sources, collectors, pipelines, SIEM platforms, Databricks tables, APIs, cloud storage, and streaming platforms.

  • Providesecond-line-of-defense support, escalation, and root cause analysisfor operational issues related to data engineering jobs, pipelines, ingestion failures, and issues leading to loss of data delivery to cyber data platforms.

  • Automate deployment, monitoring, alerting, validation, pipeline testing, repeatable onboarding, and operational support using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.

  • Partner with Detection Engineering, Security Operations, Cyber Data Science, Observability, Cloud, Infrastructure, Application, Governance, Risk, and Platform teams to ensure telemetry supports business and security use cases.

  • Create andmaintainonboarding standards, data flow diagrams, field mappings, transformation logic, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, operational handoffs, and engineering documentation.

  • Mentor engineers and promote best practices for security telemetry onboarding, data quality, automation, reliability, operational excellence, and secure engineering.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

  • Strong experience with SIEM data onboarding, security telemetry pipelines, log ingestion, routing, parsing, enrichment, validation, and troubleshooting.

  • Strong hands-on experience withSplunkor similar SIEM/log analytics platforms.

  • Hands-on experience withCribl Streamor similar data pipeline technologies for routing, filtering, parsing, enrichment, transformation, event breaking, replay, and multi-destination delivery.

  • Ability to understand and onboard telemetry from diverse enterprise data sources across cloud, endpoint, identity, network, application, infrastructure, database, SaaS, and security platforms.

  • Working knowledge of Databricks or similar analytics/lakehouseplatforms, including raw ingestion, enrichment, curated datasets, table design, partitioning, data quality checks, and analytics-ready outputs.

  • Strong understanding of data quality concepts, including log fidelity, freshness, completeness, correctness, availability, schema consistency, duplicate detection, routing validation, and ingestion latency.

  • Strong understanding of data engineering concepts such as data layers, schema design, metadata management, transformation, enrichment, deduplication, batch/streaming ingestion, and pipeline monitoring.

  • Practical knowledge of SIEM taxonomy, source classification, security use case mapping, CIM/ECS alignment, schema mapping, and enterprise log onboarding standards.

  • Strong understanding of DevOps,DataOps,DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and production support practices.

  • Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, stakeholder management, prioritization, mentoring, and end-to-end ownership skills.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's or bachelor'sdegree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related technical field; equivalent work experience may also be considered.

  • 8+ years of experiencein SIEM engineering, cybersecurity data engineering, security platform engineering, log analytics, telemetry operations, or large-scale log onboarding, with strong hands-on experience usingSplunk or similar SIEM/log analytics platforms.

  • Proven experience designing, onboarding,validating, and troubleshooting security telemetry from diverse enterprise sources to supportthreat detection, observability, incident response, reporting, cyber analytics, and data scienceuse cases.

  • 3+ years of experiencewithCribl Streamor similar data pipeline technologies such as Fluent Bit/Fluentd, Vector, Kafka,Syslog, HEC, REST APIs, cloud-native ingestion services, or streaming platforms.

  • 2+ years of experiencewithDatabricks, datalakehouseplatforms, large-scale analytics platforms, or security data repositories for telemetry validation, analytics, and data engineering use cases.

  • Experience querying,validating, and transforming data usingSPL, SQL, Spark SQL, Python,PySpark, Shell, PowerShell, or similar languages.

  • Experience with cloud-native security telemetry and ingestion patterns across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

  • Experience with production support, issue troubleshooting, incident management, change management, ticket documentation, root cause analysis, operational handoffs, vendor coordination, and continuous service improvement.

  • Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, conducting design reviews, defining onboarding standards, and driving engineering best practices.

  • Relevant certifications are preferred, includingCribl certificationssuch asCribl Certified Observability Engineer,Splunk certificationssuch asSplunk Certified ArchitectorSplunk Certified Consultant, or equivalent hands-on platform engineering experience.

  • Cloud, infrastructure, data engineering, or cybersecurity certifications are a plus.

WorkRequirement

  • This role may follow ahybrid work model, with in-office presencerequiredbased on team, business, and location expectations.

  • Standard working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM local time for the employees designated work location. Flexibility may berequiredfor occasional operational support, release of activities, incident resolution, escalation support, or datadelivery ofrecovery efforts.

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39,335 employees
Market Cap
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Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1792
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