Senior Security Engineer

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🕒 May 2

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $131.4k - $217.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Western Digital

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1970

👥 B2C

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $900M Post-IPO Equity on 2023-01

B2C • B2B • Hardware

Western Digital is a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions, including solid state drives (SSDs), hard drives (HDDs), USB flash drives, and memory cards. The company provides a broad range of products for various uses, such as gaming, video surveillance, and data backup. They also offer solutions for data centers, network-attached storage (NAS), and digital photography. Western Digital is renowned for their innovation in developing storage technologies that meet the needs of both consumers and businesses.

📋 Description

• Own, design, and continuously improve the security tooling ecosystem that underpins a modern, detection-first Security Operations Center (SOC) • Engineer, deploy, and maintain all core SOC platforms, including Malware analysis and sandboxing solutions, Analyst workstation environments (Windows investigation VMs), Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR/XDR), Email Security Engineering, Vulnerability Scan Engineering • Act as technical owner for SOC platforms, including alignment with architecture requirements, lifecycle management, upgrades, and decommissioning • Ensure SOC platforms are engineered for scale, reliability, performance, and forensic integrity • Own EDR platform engineering, configuration, and operational health across the enterprise • Define and enforce EDR hygiene standards (sensor coverage, policy consistency, versioning, asset attribution) • Monitor EDR health metrics and proactively remediate gaps impacting detection or response efficacy • Develop testing frameworks to validate EDR detections, policies, and response actions • Serve as a technical owner of detection engineering, enabling high-fidelity detections through better tooling, telemetry, and data quality • Engineer and maintain malware detonation and analysis environments that support safe, repeatable analysis • Assess new attacker techniques, malware families, and evasion tactics for detection and prevention opportunities across the enterprise

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience • 5–10+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or advanced SOC technical roles • Deep hands-on experience with EDR/XDR platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne) • Experience engineering SOC platforms rather than only consuming alerts (platform ownership mindset) • Strong understanding of Windows internals, Linux operating systems, and server infrastructure, including endpoint and host-level telemetry, process execution, persistence mechanisms, and administrative activity across workstation and server environments • Experience supporting malware analysis and sandboxing environments • Familiarity with SOC workflows, detection pipelines, and incident response requirements • Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python) • Solid grasp of attacker TTPs mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid vacation time • Paid sick leave • Medical/dental/vision insurance • Life, accident and disability insurance • Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts • Employee assistance program • Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity • Tuition reimbursement • Transit • Employee stock purchase plan • Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan