Principal Engineer - Security Logging & Detection

The role

You will serve as the technical leader for the engineering, reliability, and evolution of security logging and telemetry platforms. You will design and improve logging pipelines and telemetry services across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical owner and architectural leader for Security Logging & Detection capabilities.
• Design, build, and continuously improve logging pipelines and telemetry services across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Own the collection, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing, retention, and access patterns for security telemetry.
• Ensure the reliability, integrity, and availability of log data supporting threat detection, investigations, incident response, compliance, and security monitoring.
• Drive automation and engineering best practices to improve scalability, consistency, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled technologies to improve security engineering workflows, telemetry analysis, and reporting.
• Partner with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, and software engineering teams to improve telemetry coverage and detection capabilities.
• Define technical standards, documentation, and operational processes that improve platform resilience, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives and cross-functional teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience in Security Engineering, Platform Engineering, Logging, Observability, Detection Engineering (minimum 6yrs), or closely related disciplines.
• Strong understanding of security logging architectures and telemetry pipelines, including data collection, transport, normalization, enrichment, storage, retention, and access patterns.
• Experience building, operating, and scaling distributed systems or enterprise data pipelines.
• Experience working closely with Security Operations, Threat Detection, Incident Response, or Security Analytics teams.
• Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence architecture and engineering decisions across multiple teams.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-enabled tools that improve engineering productivity, security analysis, reporting, or workflow automation.
• Experience with large-scale cloud-native infrastructure and observability platforms.
• Professional certifications in Security, Cloud, or Software Engineering.

Benefits

• flexible working options
• time off
• competitive pay
• benefits
• well-being programs

About the company

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. They deliver cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.