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We are seeking a Principal/Senior Security Researcher to lead proactive research into emerging abuse patterns across agentic and modern endpoint environments. This includes browser extensions, SaaS- and web-delivered code, autonomous agents, MCPs and related tooling, and other forms of non-binary software that do not fit neatly into a traditional malware-focused model.
In this role, you will define and drive independent research initiatives rather than simply respond to predefined queues. You will conduct deep technical investigations, including reverse engineering, telemetry analysis, controlled experimentation, and data-driven validation, and translate your findings into actionable outcomes for the product. These may include detection concepts with clear success criteria, recommendations for new telemetry or platform behavior, and concise technical narratives for engineering, product, executive, or customer-facing audiences.
You will act as a senior research partner to engineering and product leadership, helping shape priorities around what to instrument, what to build, what to retire, and how to reason about ambiguous signals in production environments. The role requires strong technical judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to turn complex research into evidence-backed product impact.
Key Responsibilities
Define and execute proactive research programs: novel attack surfaces (e.g., browser extensions, SaaS-delivered code, autonomous agents, MCP/tooling ecosystems), long-horizon threats, and systemic gaps in visibility or detection.
Perform deep technical analysis beyond routine triage: reverse engineering, behavioral modeling, data-driven hypothesis testing, and rigorous validation of findings at scale.
Set direction for how research translates into product and detection: prioritization frameworks, threat models, evaluation criteria, and standards of evidence for shipping high-impact changes.
Partner with senior engineering and product stakeholders to shape roadmap, telemetry, and architecture informed by research; influence design tradeoffs before issues appear in the field.
Lead complex, ambiguous investigations end-to-end and synthesize conclusions for executive and customer-facing audiences when stakes are high.
Represent the team through high-quality technical artifacts (e.g., in-depth publications, conference-quality work, or equivalent internal briefings) that establish external and internal credibility.

Are you an innovative security researcher with a deep understanding of Linux systems and a passion for protecting modern environments? Do you want to lead the charge in securing enterprise networks against the latest threats?
We're looking for a skilled professional to join our team, focusing on the critical and rapidly evolving fields of Linux Security. You'll be a foundational member of a new and growing team dedicated to the blue ocean of detection, developing multiple new capabilities within the largest cybersecurity enterprise in the world.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise and influence the future of threat prevention-helping us build cutting-edge security solutions from the ground up.
Key Responsibilitie
Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our security solutions.
Enhance product effectiveness by designing advanced protection components and developing sophisticated detection rules.
Research Linux OS internals, virtualized environments, and malware behaviors to inform and strengthen our attack prevention mechanisms.
Apply advanced AI and big data approaches to investigate and analyze large-scale datasets across our client base.
Lead research on novel protection concepts and bring them to production-grade quality, serving as a subject matter expert.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs targeting Linux systems.
Conduct static and dynamic reverse engineering of Linux malware to uncover new techniques and develop mitigation strategies.
Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and other research teams to translate research findings into production features.

We are looking for a Security Researcher to join our research group as part of a growing team developing Autopilot, an innovative product for autonomous investigation and response.
As a core member of the team, you'll go beyond research: youll research, design, and develop investigation modules that allow Autopilot to autonomously detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats at a massive scale.
Youll analyze everything from new malware behaviors to attacker techniques and process activity in enterprise-scale networks, using data collected from across millions of endpoints. Your work will span identifying attack patterns and uncovering statistical anomalies, as well as validating that the system responds effectively to real-world attacks and APT campaigns using production data.
Key Responsibilities
Research and implement new autonomous methods for investigating and responding to targeted attackers, using large-scale, diverse security datasets
Develop and design the graph-based algorithms that power autonomous investigation and decision-making capabilities
Design automated incident response by developing reusable logic that transforms raw security data and alerts into clear, actionable insights.
Leverage graph algorithms, AI techniques, and statistical methods to mimic and scale human security analyst workflows
Conduct deep, hands-on investigations into modern malware, APTs, and complex attack flows to inform detection and response logic
Stay up to date with attacker methodologies, tools, and techniques (TTPs), ensuring our product remains effective against evolving threats
Contribute to a collaborative, fast-paced research team, helping shape our research strategy, improve processes, and continuously enhance the product.

We are looking for a Research Team Lead to establish and lead a cross-product research team focused on horizontal, high-impact initiatives that influence multiple our company offerings.
Unlike product-embedded research roles, this team drives foundational and strategic research projects across networking, security, identity, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. Examples include large-scale reasoning systems, autonomous policy frameworks, cross-domain detection and response concepts (xOps), and platform-wide intelligence capabilities.
You will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership and execution skills -identifying impactful research directions, building a high-performing team, and turning advanced research into real platform capabilities used by thousands of customers worldwide.
Responsibilities
Technical Vision & Strategy
Define and execute the roadmap for cross-product research initiatives.
Identify high-leverage research opportunities that impact multiple domains and products.
Drive long-term architectural thinking and influence platform evolution.
Balance innovation, experimentation, and production-readiness.
Team Leadership
Recruit, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of researchers (AI, data, algorithms, networking, security).
Establish high standards for research rigor, experimentation methodology, and engineering quality.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Research & Execution
Lead complex, ambiguous research initiatives from ideation through validation and productionization.
Design large-scale experiments and validation methodologies using our companys data platform.
Drive innovation in areas such as:
Autonomous policy systems
Cross-domain detection and response frameworks
Large-scale reasoning and decision systems
Data-driven optimization and automation capabilities
Ensure research outcomes are measurable, scalable, and aligned with business impact.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Product Research teams to translate research into shipped capabilities.
Provide technical guidance and influence cross-organizational decisions.
Act as a bridge between exploratory research and production systems.
Communication & Influence
Present research findings and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
Produce clear technical documentation, design proposals, and internal position papers.
Represent Platform Research as a center of excellence for cross-product innovation.

As an innovator at heart, you will rethink the way SOCs do security. Join the analytics research group to build our analytics module by defining detection use cases, data, and content. You will collaborate with an amazing team of researchers to protect our customers across multiple domains such as Cloud, Kubernetes, SAAS, and Email security while working on a startup-level product within the biggest security company to revolutionize the security market.
Key Responsibilities
Build a startup-level security product within a corporate environment, blending agility with enterprise resources to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
Explore how email threats evolve into Cloud, SaaS, Endpoint, and Network domains, developing detection mechanisms to counter complex attack vectors.
Gain expertise across diverse domains, including endpoint, cloud, and SaaS security, to foster a comprehensive understanding of the threat landscape.
Design advanced detection systems using machine learning and LLMs to identify and mitigate threats.
Simulate and analyze sophisticated attacks to anticipate and counter evolving threats.
Share insights with the security community through blogs, white papers, and conferences.
Collaborate with a skilled team to innovate and enhance security offerings across various domains.

Required Senior Product Security Architect
As a Product Security Architect, you will shape how security is built, not just review it. Youll work closely with engineering to influence architecture, guide design decisions, and ensure security is embedded across our platform from the earliest stages where decisions matter most, not just where they are validated. Youll take on complex, real-world challenges across cloud-native systems and AI-driven features, where security must evolve alongside scale and speed. This role is not about checklists or gatekeeping, but about applying strong technical judgment, making pragmatic trade-offs, and enabling teams to build secure systems by design. If youre looking to have a meaningful impact on a real product, collaborate with high-caliber engineering teams, and help define modern product security at scale, youll find this role both challenging and rewarding.
What Makes This Role Unique
A product where security decisions truly matter - processes and analyzes highly sensitive customer conversations at scale, creating unique challenges around data protection, privacy, and trust.
AI is core to the product, not a side project - Youll work in an environment where AI/ML is deeply embedded, addressing real-world security challenges that go beyond traditional application security.
A platform operating at a meaningful scale - Youll deal with high-volume data, distributed systems, and production environments where security decisions have immediate and visible impact.
The opportunity to shape a growing security domain - Product security is still evolving, giving you the ability to influence direction, introduce new ideas, and build things the right way.
A culture that values practical, engineering-driven security - Security is approached with a focus on real risk and practical solutions, not just compliance or process.
High ownership with room to grow - Youll have the autonomy to take initiative, drive changes, and expand your impact as the company and platfWhat Youll Do
Shape security architecture where it matters most, partner with engineers early in the design phase to influence system architecture, define secure patterns, and make critical decisions before code is written
Work hands-on with engineering teams to secure real systems review designs, dive into code and PRs when needed, and build small tools or proofs-of-concept to validate security assumptions
Lead threat modeling and deep design reviews identify trust boundaries, abuse cases, and high-impact attack paths, and ensure controls hold up in real production environments
Own security design for authentication, authorization, and APIs, including identity flows (OAuth/OIDC), session management, and multi-tenant access control.

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.
Key Responsibilities
Manage a team of security researchers conducting research on attacks against cloud data , Kubernetes and containers.
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.

We're looking for a Principal Cloud Security Researcher to serve as a senior technical leader within our Research team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role -- you won't manage people, but you'll shape the direction of our entire research function, mentor researchers, and act as a force multiplier across the organization.
You'll be the person who takes a vague threat signal and turns it into a detection strategy, a published finding, or a product capability. You'll operate as a trusted deputy to the research team lead, owning the most complex and ambiguous research challenges while raising the technical bar for the team.
What You'll Do
Drive Groundbreaking Research
Own and drive our most critical research initiatives end-to-end - from initial threat hypothesis through detection logic, product integration, and external publication.
Set the technical direction for cloud threat research across AWS, Azure, and GCP, identifying emerging attack surfaces and novel techniques before they become mainstream threats.
Investigate real-world cloud and SaaS security incidents, dissecting attacker tradecraft and extracting insights that evolve our detection capabilities.
Pioneer new forensic investigation techniques and detection methodologies for cloud-native and SaaS environments - pushing the state of the art, not just following it.
Be a Voice in the Community

Represent our company as a thought leader through high-quality research publications, conference presentations (BlackHat, DEF CON, RSA, fwd:cloudsec, and similar venues), and open-source contributions.
Build and maintain our reputation as a research-driven company that advances the field - not just a vendor with a blog.
Engage with the broader security research community, fostering relationships and collaborative knowledge-sharing.
Shape the Product

Bridge research and product - translate threat findings into actionable product requirements, working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure our CDR platform stays ahead of evolving threats.
Design and develop advanced detection algorithms that directly feed into our platform, closing the gap between research insight and customer protection.
Elevate the Team
Act as the team's go-to technical authority. When researchers hit a wall on complex cloud attack chains, IAM edge cases, or detection gaps - you're who they turn to.
Mentor and grow other researchers through research reviews, pair investigations, code reviews, and by setting quality standards and methodology best practices.
Influence technical decisions org-wide - contributing to architecture, tooling, and strategic research priorities.
Step in as the research team lead's deputy when needed - driving prioritization, representing research cross-functionally, and ensuring continuity.

The Cortex Threat Intelligence team is responsible for maintaining an up-to-date overview of the ever-changing threat landscape and its effects on the Cortex product suite. This includes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of technical threat intelligence from multiple internal and external sources. As part of this role, you will identify detection opportunities, automate threat intelligence processes, and develop tools and methodologies to increase team productivity. our company's Cortex XDR is a market-leading platform with an almost unparalleled telemetry data lake. Our team is deeply data-driven; it is the ideal environment for analysts who are enthusiastic about data mining, tracking threat actors, and deconstructing complex cyberattacks.
Key Responsibilities
Monitor the global threat landscape using diverse sources to proactively identify potential coverage gaps and improve Cortex XDRs defensive posture.
Perform in-depth research into cyberattack techniques to provide actionable insights and suggestions for improving product capabilities.
Leverage our company's telemetry datasets to identify emerging attack patterns and hunt for novel threats.
Design and propose robust detection logic across multiple operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux).
Partner with cross-functional teams within our company to communicate findings and co-develop security enhancements.
Transform technical intelligence into high-impact deliverables, including customer-facing reports, research articles for the company blog, or presentations at international security conferences.