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About Gen Digital
Gen Digital is a US-based consumer cybersecurity company formed by the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast. It sells identity protection, antivirus, VPN, and privacy software under the Norton, Avast, AVG, Avira, LifeLock, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner brands.
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As a Principal Engineer - Security Logging & Detection, you will serve as the technical leader responsible for the engineering, reliability, and evolution of security logging and telemetry platforms. You will design, build, and improve logging pipelines and telemetry services across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments to support threat detection, incident response, compliance, and security analytics. Your daily work involves managing data collection, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing, retention, and access patterns while driving automation and engineering best practices for scalability and consistency. You will collaborate with Security Operations, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering teams to improve telemetry coverage. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, enterprise data pipelines, and security logging architectures. You will also identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled technologies to enhance security engineering workflows, reporting, and overall platform sustainability across the global environment.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.
Serve as the technical owner and architectural leader for security logging and detection capabilities.
Design and build logging pipelines and telemetry services across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Manage the collection, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing, and retention of security telemetry data.
Ensure the reliability, integrity, and availability of log data to support threat detection and incident response.
Drive automation and engineering best practices to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled technologies for security engineering workflows and telemetry analysis.
Define technical standards, documentation, and operational processes to improve platform resilience and maintainability.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives and cross-functional teams.
What we're looking for
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, or closely related disciplines.
Strong understanding of security logging architectures and telemetry pipelines including 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 skills to influence architecture and engineering decisions across multiple teams.
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Experience with AI-enabled tools, large-scale cloud-native infrastructure, or professional certifications in Security, Cloud, or Software Engineering (preferred).