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Are you passionate about using cutting-edge technology to help protect the world against cyber threats? Do you live and breathe the cyber security world? Do you want to take part in an innovative and disruptive AI security group that has an impact on many customers?
You will be part of a strong security research and data science team who solve highly complex security challenges using disruptive technologies, ML algorithms and a lot of data.
As part of that, you will take part in the design and development of new groundbreaking AI security solutions which make a direct impact on many customers.
At our company we value diverse viewpoints and experiences, as we are solving complex cyber security challenges. We are committed to a safe and inclusive workspace.
Your Impact
Transform Data into Defense: Take the lead in creating high-fidelity security incidents from a massive stream of alerts generated by our industry-leading advanced security solutions.
Innovate with AI: Actively participate in cutting-edge research projects focused on creating novel prevention content at scale using state-of-the-art AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
Drive Security Efficacy: Analyze complex threat data to identify attacker patterns, develop new prevention methodologies, and enhance automated flows to rapidly protect Cortex platform customers.
Collaborate and Lead: Work side-by-side with top-tier data scientists, engineers, and product managers to translate research ideas into tangible, customer-facing security protections.

If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you.
We're looking for a Manager to lead a security research team for detection and response across cloud environments. This is an opportunity to lead an exceptional group of researchers working on a startup-level product within the largest security company, helping revolutionize how organizations protect their Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments.
Your Impact
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented security researchers focused on defending organizations as they transition from on-premises data centers to modern cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Drive the strategy and execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques for detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks targeting hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Define and prioritize detection use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative analytic approaches combining runtime visibility and posture management across diverse platforms.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats in both legacy and cloud contexts.
Oversee simulation of real-world attacks and deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content.
Foster collaboration across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions. Represent the team and share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications.

By joining our management team as the R&D director, you will take full responsibility of the email and collaboration product family R&D, manage a growing global team of over 50 professionals, and be at the top of technology for cloud SaaS high scale/high velocity AI/ML based security solutions, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
If you want to make a real global impact, making the world a safer place join us !
Key Responsibilities
Product Development:
Oversee the design, development, maintenance and deployment of cutting-edge cloud based email security products and features, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
Ensure products meet market needs and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest security and coding standards.
Ensure products are developed in the most cost effective manner, deployed over multiple regions utilizing cutting edge cloud infrastructure and technologies.
Ensure products are robust, built to scale and support dynamic architecture changes for fast growing changing environments.
Ensure product is fully monitored at the highest level 24/7 by actively implementing a reliable monitoring system across multiple domains and regions.
Team Management:
Lead, mentor, and develop a growing high-performing R&D team of over 50 high skill professionals, across the globe. including group and team leaders, software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts.
Foster collaboration and cross-functional integration between R&D, product management, customer success, and other departments.
Manage our R&D team building. Recruit and support extending our R&D ever growing team to catch up with product growth.
Monitor and report on R&D performance metrics and project progress to the executive team.
Research & Innovation:
Drive research initiatives to explore new technologies, threats, and opportunities in cloud, AI/ML and email security.
Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive landscape.
Drive innovation through threat modeling, prototyping, and validating emerging technologies.
Quality Assurance:
Ensure rigorous testing and validation processes to guarantee the reliability, performance, and security of products.
Implement best practices for software development and quality assurance utilizing advanced automation technologies.
Implement full system monitroing to assure production top availability and performance.

Are you passionate about leveraging existing research infrastructure to advance security automation? Do you want to join our Security Automation Response and Remediation Team to transform innovative research into product features?
As a Principal Security Researcher, you will utilize and augment our established BI systems, CI/CD pipelines, and research infrastructure to meet team requirements while incorporating LLM capabilities. You will help mature promising research efforts into production-ready product features that enhance our security automation capabilities. Your expertise in security research, infrastructure utilization, and modern AI technologies will drive the evolution of our security operations.
Your Impact
Leverage existing research infrastructure to enhance security automation workflows across multiple security domains (Endpoint, Identity, DSPM, NDR)
Utilize and augment established BI data systems and CI/CD pipelines to support security research initiatives
Transform research concepts into mature, production-ready product features
Integrate LLMs and AI technologies into existing security workflows to improve detection and response capabilities
Develop tools that extend our current infrastructure to better support security research and remediation planning
Collaborate with product teams to translate successful research outcomes into customer-facing features
Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate your innovations with XDR, EDR, NDR, SOAR, and big data platforms.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Windows Malware Security Researcher to join our growing Windows malware research team. In this role, you will play a key part in enhancing our Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent by prototyping new protection components and techniques and developing advanced malware prevention strategies. You will work on identifying, analyzing, and mitigating sophisticated threats, Working closely with various teams to drive innovation.
The proposed role will be part of the Windows malware research team of the Cortex-XDR agent group.
You will focus primarily on our cutting-edge agent technology, with an emphasis on real-time prevention on Windows endpoints. A deep understanding of the Windows Operating System is essential
Your Impact
Playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our security solutions.
enhance the effectiveness of our EDR product by designing cutting-edge protection components and developing sophisticated prevention rules
Researching OS internals and how Windows works under the hood - leveraging this knowledge to develop and improve our anti-malware mechanisms and capabilities
Research and lead novel protection ideas to production-grade level, serving as the feature subject matter expert
Research new malware and APT mitigation techniques and develop corresponding capabilities (POC level) or improve existing mitigation capabilities.
Respond to malware-based security events at clients networks.
Stay up to date with current malware and APT techniques.
You will provide feedback to the product management team on new feature requests and product enhancements from our customer base
Find new malware techniques and APT attacks including analysis of caught-in-the-wild malware.

​​If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you.
Were looking for a Security Research Manager to lead a team focused on two of the fastest-growing domains in cybersecurity: autonomous investigation and response (Autopilot), and macOS detection and response. This is a unique opportunity to lead an exceptional team of researchers within the largest security company in the world, helping to revolutionize threat detection, investigation and response through patent-grade capabilities.
Your Impact
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented security researchers
Drive the inception, strategy and execution of our autonomous investigation and response solution (Autopilot)
Drive the strategy and execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques to detect and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting macOS endpoints
Define and prioritize detection and investigation use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative approaches based on runtime visibility, statistic algorithms and threat intelligence
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats
Oversee simulation of real-world attacks and deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content
Foster collaboration across research, engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions. Represent the team and share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications.

We are seeking a Director of Detection Research to lead one of the most advanced teams in cybersecurity - a global group of passionate, mission-driven experts focused on staying ahead of the evolving threat landscape.

In this role, you will drive company-wide detection strategy and applied research, with real-world impact protecting tens of thousands of organizations around the world. Youll oversee a world-class team of 20+ researchers distributed across the globe, guiding the development of innovative, production-ready threat detection capabilities across multiple layers of the stack - from the OS to cloud workloads, identity, and beyond.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact position for a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of R&D, threat intelligence, and product innovation. Youll shape the future of cybersecurity at scale. If youre ready to help define the future of cyber defense and lead the team that sets the industrys detection bar, wed love to hear from you!

What will you do?
Lead our global Detection Research team - defining vision, setting priorities, and delivering impactful results.
Drive applied research into advanced detection methodologies, from behavioral and anomaly-based detection to signal correlation and AI-assisted methods.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders - Engineering, Product, Threat Intelligence, AI - to ensure detection capabilities align with evolving threat actor tactics and customer needs.
Cultivate and mentor a team of expert researchers across domains such as malware, threat hunting, identity security, cloud, and red teaming.
Stay close to the ground: bring your deep security knowledge to bear, and quickly ramp into new threat domains when needed.

we are a leader in cloud-native networking software for hyperscalers and service providers who are building the largest infrastructures in the world for network services, AI platforms and SaaS offerings. Founded in December 2015, our company disrupted some of the most challenging high-scale markets, transforming the way Networks are built, scaled, and consumed. We also built the largest network in the world, with more than half of AT&Ts backbone running on our Network Cloud. we have raised $587 million in three funding rounds which enable us to dream big and bring on the most talented people.
The Role:
As the Director of Information Security and GRC, you will oversee all aspects of our company's information security program, ensuring the protection of our data, systems, employees, and applications. You will lead a team of talented security professionals, driving a proactive, responsive and comprehensive security posture aligned with industry best practices and regulations.
Responsibilities:
Be kind.
Will be leading a team of 3-4 security operations specialists and engineers.
Embody the organizations values and act as a values champion, holding both yourself and others accountable to them.
Develop and implement a comprehensive information security strategy aligned with business objectives and risk tolerance.
Lead the Security team, fostering a culture of transparency, continuous improvement and collaboration.
Lead the development and implementation of IT governance frameworks and policies.
Oversee the implementation and maintenance of security controls, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and endpoint security solutions.
Manage product security, vulnerability management, and incident response processes.
Design and implement a robust Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program, ensuring companywide adherence to relevant regulations and standards.
Conduct regular security assessments and risk analyses to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities, partnering with business units and stakeholders across the organization.
Ensure that the organization is prepared for internal and external IT audits; and manage the audit process.
Coordinate with external agencies, auditors, customers and stakeholders for compliance assessments and audits.
Assist in the selection, implementation, and maintenance of security technologies, tools, vendors, and processes to ensure adherence to the organization's security policies and goals.
Work with DevOps and the development staff to improve the security posture and to implement secure SDLC practices.
Stay up to date on the latest security threats, trends, and technologies, ensuring that our company adopts appropriate countermeasures.
Develop and deliver security awareness training programs for employees.
Manage the security budget and resources effectively.
Report to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) on the organization's overall security posture.
Curate the organizations risk register and report regularly on burndown.

At our company, were reinventing DevOps to help the worlds greatest companies innovate -- and we want you along for the ride. This is a special place with a unique combination of brilliance, spirit, and just all-around great people. Here, if youre willing to do more, your career can take off. And since software plays a central role in everyones lives, youll be part of an important mission. Thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100, trust our company to manage, accelerate, and secure their software delivery from code to production -- a concept we call liquid software. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could join us on our journey?The company's CSO Security team is looking for a Senior Application Security Researcher. In this role, you will perform vulnerability research, assess existing architectures, and build and run tools to secure the company application landscape at scale. You will work closely with R&D and DevOps teams and be the focal point for identifying and solving complex security challenges. This is a hands-on, development-focused role with the goal of ensuring our company products adhere to the stringent security requirements of our thousands of customers.
As a Senior Application Security Researcher at our company you will
Continuously assess and challenge our companys overall security posture to ensure optimal and up-to-date platform security in our products and systems
Evaluate architecture, design, and code to ensure they are free from potential vulnerabilities and security risks
Train and mentor developers about security frameworks, testing, vulnerabilities, and best practices to ensure code compliance
Evaluate new technologies and standards in the application security domain
Plan and lead cross-company efforts with the R&D that will improve our companys security posture.

We are looking for a Sr Principal Linux Security Researcher for our Tel Aviv R&D center, to work on cortex-xdr for linux, which provides runtime protection to servers and cloud workloads.
You will be part of a team that is in charge of researching, developing and improving Anti-Exploit capabilities, Anti-malware capabilities. The position includes researching OS internals, exploits, malware, delving into cloud security, and finding ways to mitigate new attack vectors.
Your Impact
Research, develop, and improve anti-exploitation mitigations and anti-malware modules - ranging from low-level mitigations up to tackling application-level security vulnerabilities
Work on the design, evaluation, and implementation of new security technologies
Research Linux OS internals, kernel, application codebases, vulnerabilities and exploits (Mostly internal usage but also PR)
Analyze customer issues to help with detecting and preventing malicious activities in our customers networks.