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$152,112–$220,000
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$240k
versus about
$186k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About USAA
USAA (United Services Automobile Association) is a San Antonio-based Fortune 500 financial services company founded in 1922, dedicated to providing insurance, banking, and investment solutions exclusively to U.S. military members, veterans, and their families.
USAA currently has
28 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$114,080–$218,030
across 19 roles with salary data.
As a SIEM & Security Data Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the organization's security logging, telemetry, and SIEM strategy to ensure high-quality data supports monitoring, detection, and response activities. You will partner with infrastructure and application teams to onboard new data sources while optimizing pipelines, normalization, and parsing. The role involves designing scalable security solutions, building prototypes for emerging technologies, and translating business objectives into technical controls. You will work with tools such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, Elastic, or QRadar, alongside data lakes like Snowflake or Databricks. Technical requirements include experience with Kafka, Cribl, Kinesis, and Event Hubs, along with proficiency in Python, PowerShell, and SQL. Your work focuses on solving complex security engineering problems, managing vulnerabilities, and enhancing the overall security posture through advanced analytics and automated threat hunting.
Provide technical leadership for the organization's security logging, telemetry, and SIEM strategy.
Partner with infrastructure and application teams to onboard data sources and optimize data pipelines.
Design scalable security solutions and enforce implementation patterns across multiple domains.
Build prototypes and proofs of concept to evaluate new and emerging security technologies.
Translate business and engineering objectives into actionable technical controls and monitoring requirements.
Manage relationships with auditors, regulators, and third-party suppliers regarding specific security domains.
Develop automated scripts in Python or PowerShell to improve telemetry onboarding and operational efficiency.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
8 years of related experience in Security Engineering and/or Information Technology in a large organization, consulting firm, or the US military.
Expert level security consulting skills for delivering modern infrastructure solutions and information technology business models.
Mastery of complex system analysis, design, optimization, and hardening with advanced knowledge of emerging security technologies.
Exceptional relationship management skills to communicate and influence technical decisions to both technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels.
Deep expertise in SIEM platforms or leveraging a Datalake for security logging and designing large-scale monitoring environments (preferred).
Strong background in security telemetry engineering, including log collection, normalization, enrichment, and data quality management (preferred).
Experience building scalable data pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Cribl, Kinesis, or similar high-volume processing platforms (preferred).