Sr. Security Data Engineer, Vulnerability Risk Management

The Role:

Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team thats revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases.

As an employee youll be part of a continually growing organization working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide contributing to global health initiatives.

Modernas commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience with the potential to make a significant impact on patients lives worldwide.

We are advancing vulnerability risk management by building an evidence-driven data plane that connects asset vulnerability threat remediation and business-context signals into prioritized action. This role offers the opportunity to shape how Moderna turns high-volume security data into reliable model-ready products that support risk modeling owner action and executive visibility.

As AI-driven discovery increases vulnerability volume and ownership sprawl this role will help adapt detection triage and data products so teams can identify accountable owners prioritize the right work and lay the groundwork for future shift-left scanning and unified remediation workflows across code artifacts and platforms.

We are seeking a Senior Security Data Engineer Vulnerability Risk Management to own and scale the data products across the full lifecycle: raw source ingestion normalized evidence risk model outputs and operational reporting.

This is a high-impact hands-on role for a self-starter who treats security data as a product balancing engineering rigor pragmatic normalization data quality and business value.

Heres What Youll Do

Data Pipeline Engineering

• Design build and operate reliable ingestion pipelines for asset vulnerability finding remediation threat intelligence and business-context data sources.

• Build reusable ingestion patterns that can absorb new sources without brittle one-off logic.

• Support batch and incremental processing patterns from raw source capture through normalized model-ready data products.

• Partner with source-system owners to clarify schema changes source freshness field semantics and operational constraints.

Security Data Modeling & Enrichment

• Own transformations from raw evidence into normalized security entities such as assets vulnerabilities findings owners exposure context risk-reduction actions and validation states.

• Engineer model-ready features that encode asset ownership exposure business importance exploitability remediation state and organizational context.

• Supportrisk modeloutputsand operational reporting datasets used by remediation owners and leadership.

• Model ownership and accountability signals across code artifacts platforms infrastructure and application contexts to reduce ambiguity in remediation routing.

• Make pragmatic normalization decisions for messy heterogeneous data while documenting assumptions confidence and tradeoffs.

Detection Triage & Shift-Left Readiness

• Adapt vulnerability detection and triage data flows to support increasing AI-driven finding volume without losing ownership severity or remediation context.

• Build data foundations forscanning workflows across code repositories build artifacts deployed platforms and runtime environments.

• Connect vulnerability signals to remediation workflow needs including owner routing action state validation evidence exception paths and closure reporting.

• Partner with security engineering and platform teams to unify how findings are represented from discovery through remediation.

Data Quality Lineage & Reliability

• Implement data quality checks for schema validity completeness freshness duplication drift and unexpected distribution changes.

• Maintain lineage documentation so risk scores reports and owner views can be traced back to source inputs.

• Build monitoring alerting and runbooks for data pipeline reliability and source degradation.

• Partner with downstream users to resolve data defects and improve trust inpipelineoutputs.

Analytics Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Prepare reliable pre-aggregated data products for dashboards operational views risk reporting and experimentation.

• Collaborate with partners to translate new questions into durable data features.

• Improve data contracts documentation and self-service access patterns for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Continuously refine feature hypotheses and data products as the vulnerability risk model and remediation operating model mature.

Heres What Youll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

• 5 years of experience in data engineering analytics engineering security data engineering or related technical disciplines.

• Strong hands-on proficiency with Python and SQL in production data pipeline environments.

• Experience designing building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines across heterogeneous source systems.

• Experience with data modeling schema evolution incremental processing and data quality controls.

• Ability to work with messy incomplete or inconsistent datasets and make pragmatic normalization decisions.

• Experience supporting data products from source ingestion through reporting analytics model inputs or decision-support outputs.

• Experience designing data models that support ownership routing triage workflow state or operational decision-making.

• Strong analytical troubleshooting documentation and communication skills.

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with medallion lakehouse or data-product architecture patterns.

• Experience engineering features for probabilistic predictive prioritization or risk models.

• Experience in regulated environments such as biotech pharmaceutical healthcare GxP SOX or similar control environments.

• Exposure to cybersecurity vulnerability management threat intelligence security operations or security data platforms.

• Exposure to application security software supply chain security shift-left scanning artifact security platform security or unified remediation workflows.

• Experience building lineage observability monitoring and operational runbooks for critical data pipelines.

• Familiarity with orchestration data catalog data contract business intelligence or operational reporting patterns.

• Exposure to AI/Agentic/LLM-assisted coding tools

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna we believe that when you feel your best you can do your best work. Thats why our benefits and well-being resources are designed to support youat work at home and everywhere in between.

• Competitive healthcare plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being with access to fitness mindfulness and mental health support
• Family planning benefits including fertility adoption and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off including vacation volunteer days sabbatical global recharge days and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

The salary range for this role is $130800.00 - $209400.00(for positions that may be performed in California the expected salary range is $158193.00 - $182007.00 which reflects the range permitted under California Labor Code requirements) . This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An individuals position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific competencies relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills performance and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus other incentive compensation or equity award subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010 we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission values and mindsets every day our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients our employees the environment and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine we invite you to visit to learn more about our current opportunities.

Our Working Model

As we build our company we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation teamwork and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Moderna is a smoke-free alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Equal Opportunities

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry or citizenship ethnicity disability military or protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital or familial status or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day please apply!

Moderna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Accommodations

Were focused on attracting retaining developing and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences backgrounds and ideas we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best.

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations team at .

Export Control Notice This position may involve access to technology or data that is subject to U.S. export control laws including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such employment is contingent upon the applicants ability to access export-controlled information in accordance with U.S. law. Due to the nature of the work and regulatory requirements only individuals who qualify as U.S. persons (citizens permanent residents asylees or refugees) are eligible for this position. For this role Moderna is unable to sponsor non-U.S. persons to apply for an export control license. #LI-KH1

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