Senior Cybersecurity Data Engineer (AWS Lakehouse)

Location: Reston, Virginia, USA; hybrid work with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field

Salary: $159,600–$239,400 USD annual base pay for the primary location; additional U.S. location ranges may apply

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 500 company providing an AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of an enterprise AWS data lakehouse for cybersecurity telemetry.
• Define Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake standards for partitioning, schema evolution, compaction, retention, and storage tiering.
• Design and scale compute and query infrastructure using AWS EMR, Athena, Redshift, and related engines.
• Architect data mart foundations and semantic access patterns for high-concurrency analytics, BI, and reporting.
• Implement governance, network isolation, encryption, and fine-grained access controls with AWS Lake Formation and IAM.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, capacity planning, and AWS cost optimization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data platform engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, or data architecture for large-scale enterprise data lakes.
• 3+ years operating Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake in production, with expert knowledge of Parquet, ORC, and metadata layers.
• 3+ years of production experience with AWS EMR, Athena, S3 infrastructure, and AWS Lake Formation.
• 3+ years using Terraform or AWS CDK and 3+ years with Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS Redshift, including cluster sizing and workload management.
• Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in Python or Bash for infrastructure automation.
• Must work from the United States; hybrid work requires at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Data Engineer certification.
• Experience with multi-region data lakes, cross-account data sharing, or data mesh architectures.
• Experience with open-source query engines such as Trino or StarRocks.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work combines in-person collaboration with remote scheduling.
• Eligibility for the hirify.global Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants may apply.
• hirify.global provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.