
Cyber Defense Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • Arizona • Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Engineer and optimize enterprise detection and response platforms (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, cloud‑native tools) to improve coverage, resilience, and time‑to‑detect/respond.
- Develop high‑quality detections leveraging threat models, behavior analytics, MITRE ATT&CK, and intelligence‑driven TTPs—balancing fidelity with operational efficiency.
- Build automated response playbooks and investigation tooling to streamline SOC/IR workflows and reduce MTTD/MTTR.
- Strengthen telemetry pipelines (onboarding, normalization, enrichment, schema governance, retention) for critical systems, identity providers, and cloud services.
- Operationalize threat intelligence by translating IOCs/TTPs into actionable detections and mitigations; prioritize emerging risks.
- Serve as a technical escalation point during major incidents, guiding log analysis, forensics, containment, and recovery efforts.
- Partner closely with Cloud, Infrastructure, IAM, DevSecOps, and Application Security to embed controls and ensure defense‑in‑depth across the stack.
- Lead evaluations and POCs of new technologies; drive continuous improvement of risk‑based metrics and reporting.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, runbooks, and best practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5+ years in Cyber Defense, Detection Engineering, or Security Operations.
- 5+ years of experience in SIEM/SOAR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Azure Sentinel, Elastic) and analytics pipelines.
- 5+ years of experience in cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP), endpoint and network telemetry, and identity security logging.
- 3+ years of experience in MITRE ATT&CK, threat hunting, adversary emulation, and behavior‑based detections.
- 3 years in Python, PowerShell, or Bash for automation and tooling.
Benefits
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
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Hard Skills & Tools
detection engineeringcyber defensethreat huntingbehavior analyticsautomationlog analysisforensicsincident responsePythonPowerShell
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solving