Bain Capital is seeking a Senior Engineer, Data Protection & AI Security to own and advance the firm’s data security posture and AI security capabilities.
Requirements
- Deploy, operationalize, and mature the platforms and processes that protect the firm’s most sensitive data
- Combine deep technical expertise in data security platforms (DSPM, DLP, data classification) with a forward-looking understanding of how AI adoption introduces new data risks
- Own the end-to-end deployment, configuration, and operationalization of the firm’s DSPM platform
- Triage and prioritize DSPM findings, coordinate remediation with data owners and infrastructure teams, and build reporting workflows that translate discovery results into actionable risk reduction
- Rationalize DSPM capabilities across the security tool portfolio to eliminate overlap between cloud-native application protection, DSPM, and endpoint-based data security platforms
- Design and implement a data classification framework that establishes sensitivity levels, ownership models, and handling requirements for the firm’s data
- Develop and maintain data classification policies that inform downstream controls across DLP, DSPM, access governance, and backup immutability
- Evaluate, deploy, and manage AI security monitoring tools to provide visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage across the enterprise
- Develop detection capabilities for sensitive data exposure through GenAI workflows, including monitoring for data leakage via AI prompts, outputs, and integrations with enterprise tools
- Establish and maintain an AI governance operating model in coordination with the CISO and the Data Science team, including sanctioned tool inventories, acceptable use guardrails, and risk-based approval workflows for new AI applications
- Manage and enhance the firm’s DLP and insider threat platforms to prevent unauthorized data movement across endpoints, cloud applications, and email
- Develop and tune DLP policies informed by DSPM discovery and data classification outputs, ensuring controls are risk-proportionate and operationally sustainable
- Partner with Security Operations to integrate data protection alerts into the firm’s SOAR platform for automated triage and response workflows
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Competitive benefits package designed to support employees’ health, financial security, family needs, and overall well-being
