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Title: Security Engineer
Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract (6 Months)
Compensation: $50 - $75.18/hr
Industry: Retail
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About the Role
Our firm is partnering with a leading technology-driven organization in the security and data protection space to hire an experienced Security Engineer. This role focuses on building and scaling a high-performance detection platform that operates at massive throughput while maintaining strong security and resiliency standards. You’ll work at the intersection of backend engineering, cryptography, and data engineering to deliver systems that protect critical workloads at scale.
Job Description
As a Security Engineer, you will play a key role in the evolution of a Go-based detection platform. You will design, build, and operate high-throughput pipelines, detection engines, and secure secrets management workflows. This position requires deep technical expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
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Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.
How to Apply
Take the first step on your new career path! To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps!
Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!
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Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract (6 Months)
Compensation: $50 - $75.18/hr
Industry: Retail
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About the Role
Our firm is partnering with a leading technology-driven organization in the security and data protection space to hire an experienced Security Engineer. This role focuses on building and scaling a high-performance detection platform that operates at massive throughput while maintaining strong security and resiliency standards. You’ll work at the intersection of backend engineering, cryptography, and data engineering to deliver systems that protect critical workloads at scale.
As a Security Engineer, you will play a key role in the evolution of a Go-based detection platform. You will design, build, and operate high-throughput pipelines, detection engines, and secure secrets management workflows. This position requires deep technical expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Development: Build, maintain, and extend a high-performance detection platform, including consumer rule processors (YARA / YARA-X), event producers, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
- Secrets Management: Design and operate secure secrets management and encryption workflows using Vault and KMS-style systems; review and strengthen key usage patterns and remediation lifecycles.
- Data & Storage: Implement and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, indexing strategies, and query performance. Integrate search technologies such as Solr or Lucene when required.
- Reliability & Scale: Troubleshoot and optimize high-throughput streaming pipelines (Kafka, Benthos), ensuring idempotency, backpressure handling, and effective observability through metrics and traces.
- Engineering Excellence: Improve automated test coverage (unit, integration, golden tests), enhance CI/CD pipelines, and streamline Docker-based development workflows.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software development experience and a 4-year degree or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience designing and operating production services written in Go
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including migrations, indexing, and performance tuning
- 2+ years of experience implementing or operating secrets management and encryption systems (Vault, KMS, or equivalent)
- Experience working with detection or rule-based engines such as YARA or YARA-X
- Experience building or operating streaming systems using Kafka or similar technologies
- Solid understanding of containerized development using Docker and Docker Compose
- Comfortable contributing to CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in Agile environments
- Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal
- Exposure to Solr or Lucene search tuning and optimization
- Experience integrating authentication and identity systems (LDAP, OIDC)
- Knowledge of pattern-matching algorithms and performance trade-offs
- Familiarity with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics)
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.
Take the first step on your new career path! To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps!
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!
#ZR
#LI-CF1
#LI-Remote
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- Position Id: 29339
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Company Info
Since 1993, Dahl Consulting has been a leader in providing and implementing adaptive staffing and workforce solutions for its clients. DAHL specializes in workforce process management, vendor management services, as well as sourcing and staffing services. Their workforce solutions and programs ensure clients have the right people, the right process, and the right relationships, all at the right cost. DAHL s size and service offerings enable them the flexibility to provide simple and affordable solutions adaptable to any enterprise s current program, as well as future growth. Visit www.dahlconsulting.com for more information.
The mission of Dahl Consulting is to assist businesses with the creation, delivery, and support of new and existing systems to improve their level of performance through one or a combination of our service offerings. Our core competency is managing the process of procuring contract and temporary labor by finding creative ways to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the customer's contingent labor program.
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