Gen Digital Inc. - Principal Engineer - Security Logging & Detection
Requirements
• 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. • What's Next: • Our interview process is designed to help us get to know each other while giving you the opportunity to learn more about Gen, the team, and the impact you could make. • Recruiter Screen (15 minutes) – Meet with our Talent Acquisition team to discuss your background, career goals, and learn more about Gen and the role. • Recruiter Screen (15 minutes) • Technical Interviews (60 minutes each) – Meet with members of the Security Engineering team to discuss system design, distributed systems, security engineering, logging architecture, and technical leadership. • Technical Interviews (60 minutes each) • Final Interview (60 minutes) – Meet with the hiring manager's leadership to discuss cross-functional collaboration, engineering strategy, and leadership approach. • Final Interview (60 minutes)
Responsibilities
• 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. • 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 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.
Benefits
• Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. Our combined heritage is rooted in financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations, and today we deliver award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries. • Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives. We’re always looking for smart, fearless and high-impact talent who see AI as a teammate – leveraging it to move faster and deliver meaningful results. • When you’re part of Gen, you’ll have the flexibility, tools and support to do your best work and grow your career – from flexible working options and time off to competitive pay, benefits and well-being programs. • At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven. We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team. You’ll work with people who back each other, respect each other and understand that our differences are a competitive advantage. • If this sounds like you, we’d love you to be part of Gen. • As a Principal Engineer, Security Logging & Detection, you will serve as the technical leader responsible for the engineering, reliability, and evolution of Gen's security logging and telemetry platforms. These foundational services power threat detection, security investigations, incident response, compliance, and security analytics across our global environment. • Principal Engineer, Security Logging & Detection • In this highly collaborative role, you will work closely with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering teams to design resilient, scalable, and secure telemetry solutions. You'll drive technical strategy, champion engineering excellence, and continuously improve the quality, availability, and operational effectiveness of security data across Gen.
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