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Data Security Engineer - Junior+

Remote
Market range (est.) $60k–$115k
◆ 6/10 devsecuritytechFull Stack Developer
About this role

Join Plata as a Junior Data Security Engineer to implement and improve data protection technologies. Work with various teams to safeguard sensitive data across multiple platforms.

Description

The Technical Data Protection function is responsible for implementing and operating technical controls that protect the company’s sensitive, confidential, personal, financial, and payment data.

Responsibilities
  • Implementing, configuring, and operating DLP controls across endpoints, cloud services, email, collaboration platforms, and data storage environments.
  • Creating and maintaining DLP policies for personal, financial, payment, confidential, and other sensitive data.
  • Integrating data classification and labelling with technical enforcement and monitoring controls.
  • Developing detection logic based on data types, labels, content patterns, context, user behaviour, destinations, and business processes.
  • Investigating DLP alerts and potential data leakage cases in collaboration with SOC, Legal, Privacy, HR, and relevant business teams.
  • Tuning policies to reduce false positives while maintaining effective protection and monitoring coverage.
  • Implementing data discovery and scanning processes to identify sensitive data stored across corporate environments.
  • Supporting the implementation of encryption, masking, tokenisation, access controls, and other technical data protection mechanisms.
  • Collecting DLP and data security events in SIEM and creating monitoring dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics.
  • Integrating data protection tools with SIEM, Jira, identity platforms, cloud services, and automation workflows.
  • Automating repetitive operational tasks, policy deployment, evidence collection, reporting, and incident enrichment.
  • Testing data protection controls and validating that policies work as expected before production rollout.
  • Maintaining technical documentation, operating procedures, implementation guides, and response playbooks.
  • Supporting onboarding of new systems, repositories, data sources, and business processes into the data protection framework.
  • Identifying control gaps and proposing technical improvements based on incidents, testing results, and monitoring data.
  • Supporting audits and regulatory assessments by providing technical evidence of implemented data protection controls.
Requirements
  • 1+ years of experience in Information Security, Security Engineering, Data Security, DLP, or a related technical role.
  • Practical experience implementing or operating DLP, data classification, data discovery, or cloud security controls.
  • Understanding of sensitive data types, data flows, data handling risks, and common data leakage scenarios.
  • Experience creating, testing, and tuning security policies and detection rules.
  • Understanding of encryption, masking, tokenisation, access control, and secrets protection.
  • Experience analysing security events, investigating alerts, and documenting findings.
  • Familiarity with cloud services, enterprise collaboration platforms, and modern data environments.
  • Basic scripting or automation skills using Python, Bash, APIs, or workflow automation tools.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and a structured approach to technical implementation.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
Conditions & Benefits
  • Relocation support to one of our hubs — Cyprus, Serbia, Georgia or Kazakhstan — with assistance for the employee and their family.
  • Flexible work from one of our offices or remote.
  • Healthcare Coverage.
  • Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications.
  • Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursements.
  • Vacation policy: 20 days of annual leave and paid sick leave.
Job Details
Market range (est.)$60k–$115k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedSep 29, 2026 (13d ago)
Tags & Skills
devsecuritytechFull Stack Developerremote
Tech Stack
DLPdata classificationdata discoverycloud securityencryptionmaskingtokenisationaccess controlPythonBashAWSKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLSnowflake

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