Staff Cloud Security Researcher
Core
Research evasions against security sensors, track offensive tooling, and drive innovative detection strategies for cloud workload security across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Role type
Staff Cloud Security Researcher (IC)
Builds
Detection engines, proofs of concept, and innovative detection strategies for cloud environments
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Offensive Security
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Cloud attack path analysis, vulnerability assessment, threat modeling, OS internals (Windows/Linux), Python, C/C++, EDR internals, agentic AI workflows
Preferred skills
Conference speaking, writing detection signatures or heuristics
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Research and emulate sophisticated attack techniques to improve detection engines; Analyze attack paths within diverse cloud systems; Identify and prioritize vulnerabilities exploitable by adversaries; Build tools for detection assessments and PoCs; Collaborate with threat intelligence and engineering teams to highlight detection gaps
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC
