Sr Staff Security Researcher (Decoder)
Core
Develop protocol and file decoders for the Intrusion Prevention System to inspect application traffic and defend against protocol/firewall evasions on enterprise networks.
Role type
Sr Staff Security Researcher (Decoder)
Builds
Next generation firewall security engine and inline product solutions
Domain
Cybersecurity / Network Security / Protocol Analysis
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go programming, C/C++, L4-7 networking protocols, packet processing, stream reassembly, protocol parsing, traffic analysis, Linux/Unix development
Preferred skills
Next generation firewall knowledge, protocol evasion techniques, Suricata, Zeek, eBPF, DPDK, pattern matching engines, performance profiling, AI for traffic classification
Technologies
Go, C/C++, Wireshark, Fiddler, tcpdump, Suricata, Zeek, eBPF, DPDK, pprof, perf, valgrind
Responsibilities
Research networking protocols and application behavior, research file types and properties, develop defense mechanisms against evasions, develop and integrate decoders, build common services, develop internal monitoring tools, cross-team collaboration
Seniority
Sr Staff, hands-on IC
