Senior Security Researcher - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Security Researcher, you'll contribute to our identity security platform by applying security research expertise and strong engineering skills to detect and prevent identity-based threats.

In Short

• Support security research initiatives to identify identity attack patterns and develop detection approaches.
• Implement analytics including rule-based detection, behavioral analysis, and machine learning models for threat identification.
• Contribute to entitlement graph systems that analyze privilege escalation paths.
• Help develop recommendation systems that identify security misconfigurations in customer environments.
• Build and maintain detection systems with focus on reliability and performance.
• Implement detection pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, and big data processing tools.
• Create data representations and analysis tools to support advanced detection capabilities.
• Analyze customer datasets using Spark and other tools to test and validate detection hypotheses.
• Monitor detection performance and tune algorithms based on field telemetry and feedback.
• Work with product and engineering teams to implement threat detection capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Python with experience in data processing and analysis.
• Experience with SQL and working with large datasets.
• Background working with SIEM tools, security logs, or similar security data platforms.
• Understanding of security threats, attack techniques, and defensive strategies.
• Experience building or maintaining detection systems or security analytics.
• Ability to work with big data tools and distributed computing concepts.

Benefits

• Diversity and inclusion as core values.
• Opportunities for continual learning and growth.
• Supportive team culture.
• Resources to implement your ideas at scale.
• Platform to share your expertise with the broader security community.