Engineering - Dallas - Associate, Security Engineering - 10427759

Goldman Sachs • Dallas, TX

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate, Security Engineering role at Goldman Sachs Services LLC in Dallas, Texas focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines for security data. This involves transforming and loading large volumes of data across on-premises and AWS cloud environments. The position requires developing and optimizing data models for real-time alerting, incident response, and analytical reporting related to cyber threat detection. Key responsibilities include implementing data quality monitoring, CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment, and administering data systems using Kubernetes for high-availability. The role also involves performing security assessments for new projects, application vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and code/architecture reviews. Identifying security gaps, advising on controls for various systems, and partnering with global security teams to enhance cyber defense capabilities are crucial. Additionally, the role requires researching and implementing data engineering and security tools, collaborating on data requirements, and contributing to architecture decisions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related Security Engineering role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related Security Engineering role.
• Technical understanding of both application and infrastructure architecture and security (on premise and Cloud).
• Working with application security best practices including OWASP and CWE.
• Working with application security vulnerabilities and controls to remediate risks.
• Assessing and mitigating software security threat vectors, threat modeling, attack surface analysis, security design reviews, source code reviews, penetration testing or vulnerability assessments.
• Working in shift left environment to help embed security in Design phase to implement security controls within system architecture.
• Conducting infrastructure or application security risk assessments.
• Design, development, and optimization of large-scale distributed data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines using Apache Kafka, Apache Spark (batch and streaming), SQL, and Python, including data modeling and schema design across platforms such as Trino, Hive, and BigQuery.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and streaming pipelines to collect, transform, enrich, and load large volumes of security data across on-premises data centers and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments.
• Develop and optimize data models, schemas, and data warehouse structures to support real-time alerting, incident response, analytical reporting, and data science initiatives related to cyber threat detection.
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure reliable, accurate, and uninterrupted data pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and delivery of data applications and infrastructure.
• Deploy, administer, and scale data systems and infrastructure using container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes to support high-availability, fault-tolerant data processing at enterprise scale.
• Perform security assessments of business-initiated projects to enforce secure design, including data models, cryptography, and regulatory compliance.
• Perform application vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and code/architecture reviews for web applications.
• Identify security gaps and advise on controls for client/server, cloud, web, and mobile systems, including third‑party integrations against firm policies and standards.
• Partner with global security teams to enhance telemetry, detection tools, and overall cyber defense capabilities.
• Research, evaluate and implement data engineering and security tools through proof‑of‑concepts and recommend solutions that improve platform capabilities, scalability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to define data requirements, manage data streams, and resolve platform issues.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and communicate technical insights, risks, and status clearly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level