Senior Threat Research Engineer

Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California. As a Senior Threat Research Engineer, you will improve the capability to detect email-based threats and contribute to maturing the internal detection and response program by leveraging analytical skills to identify and track threats.

Responsibilities:

• Improve the processes, tooling, and methodologies used to detect malicious or otherwise dangerous emails
• Author detection rules that allow customers to detect email-based threats where other tools have failed
• Research attacker campaigns to identify ways to fingerprint attacker activity, infrastructure, and tactics
• Identify signals and features that are useful for training message classification systems
• Ensure a high standard of privacy for our customers’ data
• Work with our Security Architects and customers to drive down risk by improving customer email security posture and leveraging their data to enable them to make better informed decisions around risk

Requirements:

• Solid data analysis skills including writing SQL queries
• Experience writing detections
• Responding to security incidents
• Ability to parse through large datasets
• Intimately familiar with modern adversary behavior and techniques
• Understand how to leverage data sources to identify adversaries
• Collaborative spirit and great communication skills
• Deeply care about the impact of their work
• Ability to build and implement tooling to be robust and resilient
• Drive to continually learn new and more advanced techniques in the field
• Willingness to gain a breadth of skills to bridge gaps in getting things done