Principal Security Engineer - Hosting Security

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Join our dynamic Hosting Security Detection Engineering team as a Principal Security Engineer. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in safeguarding millions of customers across our diverse hosting ecosystem including fully managed WordPress sites, cPanel servers, Plesk hosting, virtual private servers, domain name services, and hosted email solutions.

As a technical leader on our team, you'll take ownership of our SIEM detection capabilities and incident escalation processes, while collaborating closely with our internal incident response team and web malware research teams to proactively seek emerging threat campaigns across our infrastructure. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a direct impact on customer security at scale, working with innovative detection technologies and threat intelligence, while mentoring a hardworking team of security engineers. You'll gain deep expertise in large-scale security operations, advance your leadership skills in a fast-paced environment, and contribute to innovative security solutions that protect one of the internet's largest hosting platforms from sophisticated cyber threats.

What you'll get to do...

• Design and implement sophisticated security detection systems across cloud and on-premises hosting infrastructure to identify threats, anomalies, and security incidents in real-time
• Lead the development of custom detection rules and analytics using SIEM platforms, threat intelligence feeds, and behavioral analysis to improve the organization's security posture
• Architect scalable security monitoring solutions that can handle high-volume data ingestion while maintaining low latency detection capabilities across diverse hosting environments
• Collaborate with incident response teams to refine detection logic based on threat hunting findings, false positive analysis, and emerging attack patterns
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership on complex security engineering projects, code reviews, and standard methodologies implementation
• Drive automation initiatives for detection deployment, tuning, and maintenance while establishing metrics and KPIs to measure detection effectiveness and coverage

Your experience should include...

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or similar roles with proven expertise in threat detection and security monitoring
• Strong proficiency in SIEM platforms (Splunk, Elastic Security, Chronicle, Sentinel) including advanced query languages (SPL, KQL, Lucene) and custom dashboard creation
• Programming skills in Python, PowerShell, or similar languages for automation, data analysis, and custom detection tool development
• Deep understanding of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) including native security services, logging mechanisms, and infrastructure-as-code security practices
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and the ability to translate IOCs, TTPs, and threat research into actionable detection rules and hunting queries
• Knowledge of networking protocols, system administration, and security frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST) with experience in log analysis and forensic investigation

You might also have...

• Security certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, or cloud security specializations (AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer)
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern DevSecOps practices including CI/CD pipeline security integration

We've got your back...

We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups. Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us...

GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

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At GoDaddy, we subscribe to a “pay for performance” approach that considers our total compensation to ensure we offer competitive pay. Total compensation elements vary based on role, but in addition to our base pay offering, may include:

• Comprehensive benefits (may vary based on location)
• Short-Term Incentives (annual bonus, sales incentive pay) - eligibility dependent on role and company and/or individual performance
• Long-Term Incentives (equity) - eligibility dependent on role

We are proud to provide pay transparency to our candidates. In the United States, we have four geographic pay groups (Groups). GoDaddy's target compensation is determined based on your location and varies based on an individual's qualifications, skills and experience at the time of the offer. For this role, our targeted base pay ranges for new hires in each US Group are:

• Group 1: $137,000.00 – $206,000.00
• Group 2: $153,500.00 – $230,500.00
• Group 3: $163,200.00 – $244,800.00
• Group 4: $178,500.00 – $267,500.00

Check out here to see which locations are aligned to each Group.

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