Sr. Cloud Security Researcher (Hybrid, ISR)

The Cloud Research team is an integral part of the Falcon Cloud Security product, tasked with the critical mission of safeguarding cloud environments through innovative detection and response capabilities. This team is works in unison to ensure our customers cloud environments are secure against the ever-changing threats in the security landscape.

As a senior researcher on the team, you will play a pivotal role in conducting security research, and translating it directly into security value for our customers.

This role provides a unique opportunity to join a team with strategic importance for protecting our customers from emerging threats and novel attack methodologies in cloud environments.

You will also get to work with vast datasets, have a direct impact on the efficacy and evolution of our detections, and play a decisive role in the strategic direction of our product development. Your contributions will enable continuous improvement of our cloud detection capabilities ensuring our customers are secured with the most advanced security measures.

What You'll Do:

Initiate and conduct Cloud Research Initiatives: follow the threat landscape to identify trends in the realm of cloud infrastructure security, threat actors, novel attack approaches, and vulnerabilities in cloud-based and/or cloud-native environments and workloads.

Research threats and vulnerabilities in cloud provider infrastructure and containerized applications and workloads.

Develop advanced cloud security models: Create sophisticated models and frameworks for identifying and mitigating new types of cloud threats, focusing on predictive analytics and proactive threat hunting methodologies.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with various teams, including engineering, product management, detection engineering, and threat intelligence to drive cloud detections in the Falcon platform.

Provide cloud security thought leadership: Share insights and best practices with the broader security community through publications, conference presentations, and technical blogs.