Cybersecurity Data Engineer

Cybersecurity Data Engineer

Location: Remote, USA
Employment type: Contract
Indicative rate: $40–$50/hr

Contract cybersecurity data engineering work focuses on orchestrating and transforming complex security telemetry flows. Engineers develop scalable ingestion architectures and reusable patterns that support enterprise security data operations. Projects may use Cribl, Vector, and other open-source or platform-agnostic tools to improve data routing, processing, and operational consistency.

Core skills

• Security telemetry
• Data ingestion
• Data pipelines
• Cribl
• Vector
• Open-source data platforms
• Pipeline orchestration
• Reusable ingestion frameworks

Required qualifications

• Experience engineering data flows or pipelines for security telemetry or comparable high-volume data.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable data ingestion pipelines.
• Experience with Cribl, Vector, or comparable data routing and ingestion platforms.
• Ability to develop reusable ingestion patterns, frameworks, or templates.
• Experience working with open-source or platform-agnostic data tooling.
• Ability to design modular, maintainable data flow architectures.