Security Research Engineer
Skills
Computer ScienceQuery LanguagesAnalytical SkillsCyber OperationsCyber Threat IntelligenceData AnalysisIntelligence Analysis
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 6+ years professional experience in security research threat intelligence analysis cyber operations or similar
- 4+ years querying and analyzing data using query languages like SQL
- 4+ years of scripting or software engineering experience with a common programming language preferably Python
- Experience contributing to automated defensive systems through detection engineering or security product development
Nice to have
- Investigation and response to identity and access threats
- Contributions to a customer-facing defensive security product
- Publication of research and intelligence reports
- Familiarity with identity security protocols
- Collaboration with data scientists or detection engineers
- Facilitation of red team exercises penetration testing or Capture the Flag competitions
- Participation in development of machine learning and AI systems
Day to day
- Serve as an internal authority on identity threats to aid in product development
- Actively hunt for identity threats in Duo customer telemetry and develop effective countermeasures
- Support detection engineers in designing logic to detect and remediate sophisticated identity threats
- Establish maintain and monitor internal fixed intelligence repositories containing malicious IPs and device identifiers
- Coordinate bidirectional intelligence sharing with security research partners in Cisco Talos
- Organize and participate in red teaming and threat emulation exercises to better understand adversarial techniques and evaluate product efficacy
Hiring process
- Application window is expected to close 10/04/2024