Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the transition from research findings to deployable artifacts, such as detection rules, distributed feeds, scoring inputs, or customer alerts.

• Collaborate with neighboring teams to establish clear handoff agreements.

• Develop and sustain components of the STRIKE platform across various services and runtimes.

• Transform research into deliverable detection content, including YARA, Sigma, STIX patterns, and behavioral indicators.

• Promote STIX 2.1 as a standardized output schema and TAXII 2.1 as a distribution standard.

• Create automation solutions that eliminate unnecessary overhead from research tasks.

• Work in coordination with engineering, measurement, and platform product teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline.

• Experience: 5 to 8 years in a hands-on engineering position with significant exposure to threat intelligence, security research, or detection engineering.

• Proven experience in developing production systems that utilize or generate threat intelligence data is essential.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python and TypeScript/Node at a production level.

• Familiarity with relational and cache data stores, as well as at least one streaming or batch data platform.

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of STIX 2.1, TAXII 2.1, MISP, and MITRE ATT&CK, and their practical integration.

• Experience with detection and research tooling, specifically YARA, Sigma, and STIX Patterning.

• Experience in deploying production systems that utilize language models.

• Bridge Mindset: awareness of the relationship between research and coding skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary tailored to each country.

• Stock options.

• Comprehensive health benefits.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Parental leave.

• Tuition reimbursement programs.

• And much more!