Security Analytics Engineer
Backblaze External Website9 hours ago
Remote, Costa Rica +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable security analytics platforms and telemetry pipelines.
- Integrate, normalize, enrich, and correlate telemetry from enterprise, cloud, and AI-enabled systems.
- Develop and tune behavioral detections, correlation logic, dashboards, and alerting strategies.
- Convert threat intelligence, incident, vulnerability, and offensive-security findings into detection improvements.
- Build observability for AI agents and autonomous workflows, including identity, tool usage, execution activity, and security-relevant behavior.
- Apply AI-assisted techniques to log analysis, correlation, anomaly detection, enrichment, and investigation support.
- Automate telemetry management and security workflows with appropriate human oversight and explainability.
- Optimize SIEM reliability, data quality, performance, retention, and cost.
Requirements
- Experience engineering SIEM, security analytics, detection, observability, or large-scale telemetry systems.
- Strong knowledge of logging, event correlation, normalization, enrichment, and security data pipelines.
- Experience developing detections, behavioral analytics, or correlation logic.
- Experience integrating security telemetry from diverse enterprise and cloud environments.
- Scripting or software-development experience and familiarity with APIs and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Understanding of modern cloud and distributed architectures.
- Familiarity with security telemetry standards, MITRE ATT&CK, AI-assisted analytics, or observability of AI and agentic systems is preferred.
Benefits
- US-based postings include transparent base-pay ranges, with final offers varying by location, skills, experience, and credentials.
- Backblaze is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
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About Backblaze External Website
Backblaze provides cloud storage and backup services for businesses, developers, and individuals, centered on its B2 S3‑compatible object storage and Computer Backup offerings. It also offers B2 Overdrive for high‑throughput AI/GPU data pipelines and B2 Neo for white‑label enterprise storage, sold on usage-based and subscription pricing. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, the NASDAQ‑listed company (BLZE) serves 500,000+ customers across 175 countries.