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Security Research Engineer

Skills
Artificial IntelligenceChaos EngineeringGood Clinical PracticeGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesProduct Road MappingQuickness
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a security research or engineering role performing hands-on work as part of a fast paced engineering org
  • 2+ years of leadership experience building teams in the cloud native security space
  • Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, networking layers L3-L7+ required
  • Experience with C++, Webassembly, Golang is preferred
  • Expert level knowledge of Operating Systems /Network Security fundamentals
  • Experience contributing to open source community projects in the cloud native space is preferred
  • Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to distill deeply technical things in an easy to understand form
  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering with a focus on Cybersecurity, or similar equivalent industry experience is preferred

Nice to have

  • Passion for cybersecurity
  • Independence
  • Collaborative
  • Leadership experience
  • Strong communication skills

Day to day

  • Develop experiments and PoCs that uncover and demonstrate key security problems in cloud native environments and how to fix them
  • Document research findings and communicate with the broader team
  • Actively contribute to open source projects within Operant such as Secops-Chaos which is a tool built by Operant to apply chaos engineering principles to cloud-native security
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to influence future product roadmap with key security research findings
  • Share and advocate research in technical blogs, conferences, and forums
  • Review and contribute to security best practices within Operant's product
  • Build and lead a security research team at Operant over time
  • Function independently while being able to make choices in the presence of unknowns
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Operant's founding team and other engineering leaders
  • Take active interest in understanding real customer pain points while doing technical research