As a senior researcher and tech lead on the team, you will play a pivotal role in conducting security research while mentoring and guiding fellow researchers to scale our capabilities. Beyond your individual contributions, you'll help establish research methodologies, foster collaboration, and build a culture of technical excellence within our growing team.
This role provides a unique opportunity to join a team with strategic importance for protecting our customers from emerging threats and novel attack methodologies in cloud environments. You will get to work with vast datasets, have a direct impact on the efficacy and evolution of our detections, and play a decisive role in the strategic direction of our product development. Your contributions will enable continuous improvement of cloud detection capabilities while helping develop the next generation of security researchers.
What You'll Do
Initiate and conduct Cloud Research Initiatives: Follow the threat landscape to identify trends in the realm of cloud infrastructure security, threat actors, novel attack approaches, and vulnerabilities in cloud-based and/or cloud-native environments and workloads.
Research threats and vulnerabilities in cloud provider infrastructure and containerized applications and workloads.
Develop advanced cloud security models: Create sophisticated models and frameworks for identifying and mitigating new types of cloud threats, focusing on predictive analytics and proactive threat hunting methodologies.
Lead and mentor research efforts: Guide fellow researchers in technical decision-making, establish research best practices and methodologies, and foster knowledge sharing within the team to build collective expertise.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with various teams, including engineering, product management, detection engineering, and threat intelligence to drive cloud detections in the Falcon platform.
Coordinate research initiatives: Lead technical discussions, prioritize research objectives within your area of responsibility, and ensure alignment with broader team goals and product roadmap.
Requirements: Proven expertise in security research, methodologies, technologies, and tools.
Minimum of 5 years experience in cloud security research with demonstrated experience in technical leadership or mentoring roles.
Strong leadership and communication skills with experience guiding and developing technical talent.
Experience with cloud-native services, infrastructure, and environments.
Experience with threat research and misconfiguration identification.
Comprehensive knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their security features.
Excellent conceptual thinking and communication skills, capable of conveying complex ideas effectively and building consensus among technical teams.
Demonstrated ability to establish technical best practices, lead technical discussions, and coordinate collaborative research efforts.
This position is open to all candidates.