Staff Threat Research Engineer

About Netskope

Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security. 

Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Melbourne, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events (pre and hopefully post-Covid) and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON), we strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@Netskope.

About the role

Netskope’s Threat Research Team is a team of security researchers and subject matter experts working together to solve today’s security challenges in new and innovative ways. The primary output of the Threat Research Team is thought leadership (patents, blog posts, conference presentations, webinars, and podcasts) and product improvements (new features, protections against new threats). The Threat Research Team collaborates closely with the security, data science, product, and engineering teams to develop novel protection strategies against emerging cybersecurity threats.

What’s in it for you

We are looking for threat researchers who can leverage their experience and expertise to identify, analyze, and reproduce threats, while at the same time identifying potential strategies to mitigate the threats. You will be responsible for ensuring that Netskope can protect against cutting edge tactics and techniques by working closely within engineering to improve the product. You will also be a thought leader, sharing the results of your research both internally at Netskope and externally at security conferences in your region and throughout the world.

What you will be doing

• Tracking attacker activity on the Netskope platform, working with partners to disrupt attackers when possible, and producing and sharing thought leadership around attacker trends and TTPs.
• Identifying opportunities for threat protection product innovation, especially innovations that provide better visibility, more accurate detection, or more robust preventative measures.
• Working with the product and engineering teams to incorporate innovations into the Netskope product.
• Producing quality thought leadership content, including blog posts and reports about attacker trends and TTPs.
• Working with sales, marketing, PR, and other internal stakeholders to maximize the reach and impact of thought leadership content.
• Presenting your research at top-tier security conferences and publishing your research in top-tier security publications.

Required skills and experience

• Communication
• Communication skills to work in a collaborative team
• Written and verbal skills to create and deliver high-quality publications and presentations

• Threat Research
• Expertise in web and network security
• Experience with threat hunting and analyzing large-scale cybersecurity datasets
• Experience with common threat intelligence tools, such as VirusTotal
• Experience creating POCs of threats in a controlled environment

• Data
• Experience working with common database and search technologies, such as SQL

• Software Development
• Strong software development skills to develop your own tooling as needed
• Discipline to create well-tested and documented code

Nice to have

• Communication
• Experience interacting with cybersecurity leadership in large organizations
• Experience working collaboratively with other groups to resolve security incidents 

• Threat Research
• Experience responding to security incidents and/or triaging alerts and incidents at scale
• Experience with common analysis tools, such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Wireshark, and Fiddler
• Experience using red-team tools such as Empire, Metasploit, and CobaltStrike.

• Data
• Experience working with big data frameworks, such as Spark or BigQuery.

• Leadership
• Product leadership / program management experience - implement your vision across teams and stakeholders.

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