Security Researcher

Description

Hunters Next-Gen SIEM automates threat detection, investigation, and response, freeing analysts to proactively protect their organizations. Hunters deploys in days and eliminates repetitive work with out-of-the-box integrations and detection rules. High priority alerts are surfaced based on risk and confidence scoring, and similar alerts are clustered together, reducing alert triage by 80%. Customers can build an open, scalable data lake at a predictable cost, and bring their own data lake or leverage Hunters’. Team Axon provides rapid response to emerging threats, incident investigation, proactive threat hunting, and security posture and hygiene reporting.

Hunters was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for SIEM and received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. Learn how companies like Booking.com, Snowflake, TheRealReal and Cimpress are leveraging Hunters to empower their security teams at https://www.hunters.security.

Hunters is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors including Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks, and Okta.

We are looking for a top-notch Security Researcher, to resolve the toughest issue in cybersecurity: utilizing terabytes of data for detecting attacks, incident investigation and prioritizing threats.

Responsibilities

• Threat detection and research: Dive deep into terabytes of data to identify classic & new attack vectors, emerging threats, and vulnerabilities across various attack surfaces. Stay up-to-date with the latest cybersecurity trends and develop cutting-edge threat detection methodologies.
• Detection engineering: Leverage your expertise in cyber security to analyze our customers’ data and come up with the best detection strategies to decrease noise to a minimum while avoiding cases of False Negatives (i.e. missed detections), enhancing the accuracy of our platform's threat detection.
• Threat automatic investigation: Research and implement cross correlations of suspicious events using various data sources in order to create actionable, context enriched security alerts.
• Thought leadership and community engagement: Drive thought leadership initiatives by creating technical blog posts, delivering webinars, and speaking at conferences to share insights, educate the community, and enhance the company's reputation in the cybersecurity landscape.
• Be at the forefront of the Hunters mission and work closely with Hunters customers regarding cyber security investigations and incidents detected in their environments.

Requirements

• A background of at least 5 years in defensive and/or offensive Cyber Security:
• Red Teaming / Penetration Testing or Malware analysis experience
• Blue Teaming / Threat Hunting experience
• Other security research relevant experience
• Solid understanding of various security related technologies, such as:

1. OS internals, EDR
2. Active Directory, Office 365
3. Cloud technologies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and GCP
4. Network protocols and security products
5. Identity & SSO products such as Okta, Auth0 and OneLogin
6. Kubernetes

• Experience with Python, SQL or similar data analysis capabilities
• Proficient in English (both written and spoken)