About the Role

We are looking for a highly technical Product Enablement Data Engineer to design, generate, and manage realistic data feeds that power our cloud-native cybersecurity and networking platform.

In this role, you will focus on traffic generation, attack simulation, SaaS configuration automation, and telemetry validation—ensuring our platform reflects real-world customer environments and behaviors.

The Product Enablement team is responsible for unlocking the full potential of our platform through engaging, hands-on learning experiences. You will play a critical role in helping customers understand the technical value of our solution by creating realistic scenarios that mirror real-world use cases.

Unlike traditional data engineering roles, this position focuses on generating synthetic yet highly realistic network traffic and security behaviors to drive product validation, analytics, and enablement outcomes.

What You’ll Do

Design Realistic Traffic & SaaS Simulations

• Build repeatable simulations of SaaS application traffic (e.g., collaboration tools such as Zoom)

• Simulate network conditions including latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth shaping

• Develop traffic generation tools and orchestration workflows for scalable, repeatable scenarios

Intrusion & Threat Simulation

• Design and implement attack simulations aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK

• Simulate real-world threat behaviors, including:

  • Lateral movement

  • Command-and-control (C2) traffic

  • Data exfiltration

  • Brute force and credential abuse

• Build modular, reusable attack simulation libraries

• Validate detection accuracy against simulated attack patterns

SaaS Configuration & API Automation

• Configure SaaS environments to ingest and process simulated traffic

• Leverage APIs to:

  • Provision tenant environments

  • Configure policies and product features

  • Retrieve telemetry and system data

• Automate configuration and deployment workflows

Cloud-Based Traffic Infrastructure

• Deploy and manage cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure) for traffic and attack simulation

• Configure VPN connectivity into SaaS-managed environments

• Maintain scalable infrastructure for consistent testing and demos

Data Validation & Observability

• Build dashboards to monitor data integrity, telemetry completeness, and detection behavior

• Implement alerting for data gaps or system degradation

• Perform root-cause analysis and troubleshoot telemetry or pipeline failures

What You Bring

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in networking and/or cybersecurity

• 5+ years of experience in data, network, or security engineering

• Strong programming skills in Python

• Experience working with REST APIs and authentication workflows

• Hands-on experience with Azure (AWS is a plus)

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform)

• Experience generating network traffic using tools such as Scapy, tcpreplay, or iperf

• Strong Linux experience, including networking tools (tcpdump, curl, ip, netstat)

• PowerShell scripting for Windows automation and system provisioning

• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, TLS)

• Experience configuring VPNs and secure connectivity

• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK or similar frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

• Networking or security certifications (e.g., CCNA)

• Experience building demo or lab environments

• Experience supporting enablement or training platforms

• Experience with GraphQL APIs

• Experience simulating adversary behavior in controlled environments

• Familiarity with traffic shaping tools (tc, netem)

• Experience with observability platforms (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus)

• Background in cybersecurity, SASE, or networking products

Why This Role Matters

This role ensures our platform behaves as it would in real customer environments—through realistic traffic patterns, authentic attack simulations, and validated telemetry.

The environments you build will directly impact how we demonstrate, validate, and deliver our product to customers. Your work will help improve detection accuracy, strengthen product validation, and elevate the quality of our demos and enablement experiences.

Cato provides a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits plan. Benefits for this role include health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), stock options, Health Savings/Flexible Spending Accounts, flexible time-off, paid parental leave and disability benefits.

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.

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