Lead Endpoint Cybersecurity Engineer
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)5 days ago
Charlotte, NC, USA or Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$124k - $154k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering activities for enterprise endpoint cybersecurity technologies across Windows, macOS, Linux, VDI, and server environments.
- Design, configure, deploy, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot endpoint cybersecurity applications and agents.
- Lead endpoint deployment, integration, validation, operation, and optimization for the Enterprise Deception Framework.
- Support evaluation and deployment of endpoint-based AI Detection and Response capabilities for emerging AI and agentic-AI threats.
- Perform root-cause analysis, break/fix support, application lifecycle management, policy tuning, regression testing, deployment validation, and rollback planning.
- Develop technical standards, runbooks, operating procedures, implementation documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
- Identify automation opportunities using scripting, APIs, configuration-management platforms, and other engineering mechanisms.
- Coordinate complex incidents with cybersecurity, infrastructure, desktop engineering, vendors, and application owners.
- Test cybersecurity agent coexistence, performance, stability, upgrades, rollback, failure modes, and interoperability.
- Validate integrations with EDR/XDR, SIEM, SOAR, identity, security monitoring, and response workflows.
- Provide technical go/no-go recommendations and establish performance monitoring after deployment waves.
- Mentor others and provide technical leadership for endpoint cybersecurity engineering initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience with security technology proofs of concept, product evaluations, and production deployments.
- Hands-on experience engineering and supporting enterprise deception or other endpoint cybersecurity solutions.
- Experience with endpoint application performance, compatibility, stability, and regression testing is preferred.
- Understanding of Zero Trust, endpoint hardening, security baselines, vulnerability management, and incident response is preferred.
- Experience translating security architecture and risk requirements into endpoint engineering implementations is preferred.
- Experience testing multiple concurrent cybersecurity agents for performance and interoperability is preferred.
- Previous technical leadership or mentoring experience is preferred.
- A CISSP, GIAC, Microsoft security, CrowdStrike, or comparable industry certification is preferred.
- A university degree is preferred; technology, engineering, or equivalent professional experience is accepted.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards package including a superior retirement program and health, wellness, and work-life offerings.
- The organization describes a collaborative in-office work environment.
- Performance-linked incentive programs may be available in addition to base salary.
About Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)
TIAA is a privately held, not-for-profit financial services organization providing retirement plans, annuities, IRAs, mutual funds, life insurance, 529 plans, and brokerage services to employees and institutions in education, healthcare, and the nonprofit sector. Founded in 1918 and headquartered in New York, it also offers investment management through its Nuveen subsidiary. Its revenue comes from fees on asset management, insurance, and brokerage services.