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If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you.
As a Manager of the Core Cloud Posture team, you will lead a new, high-impact team of security researchers. You'll innovate and build on top of our market-leading posture portfolio and be responsible for the "what's next." Your mission is to innovate on top of this foundation, build the intelligent "connective tissue" that provides unparalleled context, and architect the next-generation features that will keep us ahead of the market.
Your Impact
Lead, and grow a team of talented security researchers focused on enhancing the cloud security posture of our customers.
Act as a technical mentor and force multiplier for junior security researchers. You will actively share your deep industry experience, guide their research methodologies, and foster a learning environment that accelerates their professional development from talented juniors into autonomous experts.
Champion the continuous evolution of our security logic. You will ensure our posture coverage keeps pace with the rapidly changing cloud landscape, systematically addressing gaps and refining our policies to address evolving threats.
Leverage our advanced cross-product engines to synthesize isolated findings into a cohesive, prioritized story of risk for the customer.
Stay ahead of the evolving cloud threat landscape, translating the latest research on cloud-native based attacks into resilient posture policies that effectively minimize the attack surface.
Foster collaboration across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions.

Are you excited about leading a team of researchers who are redefining how cloud security is automated? Do you want to shape the future of an Autonomous SOC by building the next generation of remediation and response content?
As the Cloud Cybersecurity Research Manager, you will lead a team of talented researchers creating autonomous remediation plans for cloud runtime and posture issues. You will drive innovation, mentor researchers, and ensure our automation content is precise, safe, and impactful. This role combines hands-on technical knowledge with strategic leadership, empowering your team to deliver solutions that protect customers at scale.
Your Impact
Lead and mentor a team of cloud security researchers, fostering technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration
Define research priorities and guide the design of robust, testable, and autonomous remediation plans for cloud runtime and posture issues (CSPM, DSPM, CIEM, CNAPP, IAM, etc.)
Ensure high-quality delivery of SOAR playbooks and automation content aligned with customer needs and company vision
Collaborate with product, engineering, and threat research teams to maximize the impact of remediation content
Establish processes, KPIs, and best practices to continuously improve research output, playbook quality, and operational efficiency
Stay up to date with attacker TTPs, cloud-native threats, and emerging technologies to guide team direction.

Are you passionate about staying one step ahead of cyber threats? Do you thrive at the intersection of deep technical expertise and strategic leadership?
We're looking for an exceptional Offensive Security & Research Team Leader to drive cutting-edge offensive operations, lead a team of elite security professionals, and shape the future of cyber resilience.
In this role, you'll lead hands-on red team activities, threat research, and vulnerability discovery-pushing the boundaries of what's possible in cyber offense. You will work closely with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders to translate complex attack scenarios into real-world risk mitigation strategies.
This is more than a leadership position-it's an opportunity to build and scale a high-impact team at the forefront of the cybersecurity landscape.
Job Description:
Lead a high-performing offensive security team specializing in red teaming, threat emulation, advanced adversary simulation, and vulnerability research.
Mentor and grow team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and operational excellence.
Promote a culture of innovation, encouraging curiosity and technical excellence within the team.
Translate technical discoveries into operational insights that enhance offensive engagements and deliver clear value to clients
Collaborate cross-functionally with our cyber offensive and defensive teams
Develop and maintain internal tools and methodologies that enhance offensive capabilities, automation, and reporting accuracy.
Design and execute tailored offensive engagements, including full-scope red team operations, assumed breach scenarios, and social engineering campaigns.

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.
Strategic Leadership:
Develop and implement the R&D strategy in alignment with the company's product vision and business objectives.
Adopt AI/ML to enhance threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavior analysis for better email security.
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence within the R&D team.
Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of researchers, engineers, and data scientists.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellence.
Budget Management:
Manage the R&D budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources to projects and initiatives.
Manage email security cloud cost and drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and activities.

Are you passionate about advancing automation in identity security? Do you thrive at the intersection of research, innovation, and large-scale impact? As a Senior Security Researcher, you will drive the design of autonomous response strategies to counter identity-based threats, misconfigurations, and abuse scenarios. Your research will directly shape the Cortex platforms ability to remediate identity-driven attacks, ensuring effective, safe, and scalable automation for our customers. You will collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to deliver on the vision of the Autonomous SOC.
Your Impact
Lead the design and implementation of robust, testable, and safe remediation playbooks for identity-related threats (e.g., privilege escalation, credential abuse, lateral movement, IAM misconfigurations).
Conduct deep research on adversary TTPs targeting identity systems and translate insights into automated detection and response mechanisms.
Drive innovation in identity security automation by applying data analysis, modeling, and programming to refine remediation strategies.
Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor within the research group, elevating the teams overall expertise in identity security.
Stay ahead of evolving identity-based attack vectors, cloud-native identity risks, and advanced adversary tradecraft to ensure our automation keeps pace with threats.

Are you passionate about innovation in cloud security and want to redefine how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) leverage both agent and agentless technologies for detection and response? Join our cutting-edge Security Research team and lead the development of next-generation cloud detection and response solutions. In this role, you will define detection use cases, analyze threat data, and create advanced security content to protect against evolving threats in cloud environments. Be part of an exceptional team of researchers and engineers dedicated to safeguarding our customers. This is your opportunity to dive into pioneering technologies that integrate cloud security with innovative detection methodologies in a world-leading cybersecurity company.
Your Impact
Conduct ongoing research to identify and develop new detection techniques for both agent-based and agentless cloud technologies
Stay ahead of Advanced Threats, attacker methodologies, and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to ensure our solutions remain proactive and effective against emerging threats
Simulate real-world attack scenarios in lab settings, performing in-depth analysis of adversarial behaviors and their implications for cloud security
Foster a collaborative atmosphere within an experienced, diverse, and supportive research team, driving forward new and innovative ideas in cloud detection and response.

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.

Shape the Future of Cybersecurity with Us Are you driven by deep curiosity, bold innovation, and the desire to transform cutting-edge AI research into real-world cybersecurity impact? Join Cynet, an established yet rapidly growing cybersecurity startup, where you’ll help build next-generation AI-powered security products from the ground up. You’ll be part of a small, elite, cross-disciplinary team working closely with security researchers, R&D engineers, data engineers, and product leaders.
Here, you’re not just joining a company, you’re stepping into a place where you can envision, build, and deploy foundational AI technologies that protect organizations worldwide. You will have the rare opportunity to drive innovation end-to-end, shape our future technology, and create AI systems that make a real difference in defending against modern cyber threats.
This is a role for someone who wants to put their soul into their craft, someone hungry to learn fast, experiment boldly, and turn ambitious ideas into production-ready AI solutions.

What will you do:

* Drive innovation by combining deep security research with modern AI techniques to build impactful, customer-facing security capabilities.
* Build and refine intelligent generative AI agents that drive automated cybersecurity reasoning, investigation workflows, and threat analysis.
* Extend and enhance our next-generation AI antivirus engine by designing new feature representations, building file parsers, and developing ML models end-to-end.
* Engineer and implement core parser and model components in C++ and Python to seamlessly integrate into the Cynet Endpoint Agent and platform infrastructure.
* Use Cynet’s ML experimentation pipelines to run experiments, optimize performance, and deliver production-ready detection models.
* Serve as the cybersecurity expert within the Data Science team, guiding threat modeling, malware understanding, and security-driven AI design decisions.

About Us:
Cynet is a leader in threat detection and response, designed to simplify security for organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to empower lean security teams and their partners with an AI-powered, unified platform that autonomously detects, protects, and responds to threats - backed by 24×7 security experts. With a Partner First mindset , we focus on helping customers and partners stay protected, operate confidently, and achieve their goals. Our vision is to give every organization true cybersecurity peace of mind, providing fast, accurate protection without the noise or complexity.
This role follows a hybrid work model in countries where Cynet has offices (Israel, USA), while being fully remote in England, Poland, Italy, and Germany.

The company Cloud Content team is an integral part of the Content Product Group, tasked with the critical mission of safeguarding cloud environments through innovative detection and response capabilities. This specialized team comprises cloud security experts, researchers, and engineers in various time zones working in unison to ensure our customers cloud workloads are secure against the ever-changing threats in the security landscape.As a senior researcher on the team, you will play a pivotal role in conducting security research, and translating it to direct security value for the company and product.This role provides a unique opportunity to join a team with strategic importance to protecting our customers from emerging threats and novel attack methodologies in both cloud and Linux based environments. You will stay ahead of the curve with regards to the threat landscape and your research will directly impact the direction of the team and our product.You will also 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 our companys cloud detection capabilities ensuring that our customers can be secured with the most advanced security measures in place.
What Youll 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.
Conduct cutting edge research in the areas of Linux security (low level and high level operating system research) and become an authoritative source of knowledge in the team.
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. Focus on predictive analytics and proactive threat hunting methodologies.
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 company falcon platform.
Provide cloud security thought leadership: Share insights and best practices with the broader security community through publications, conference presentations, and technical blogs.