Security Research Engineer

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Requirements:

• Proficient at writing advanced Go and working with large Go codebases.
• Excellent understanding of modern networking protocols and network analysis tools (e.g., Wireshark).
• Familiarity with regular expressions.
• Strong desire to understand backend operations.
• Familiarity with SQL and querying large databases is helpful.
• Proficiency with development tools and paradigms (Git, GitHub, CI/CD, etc.).
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills.
• Experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to other Engineers.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience in vulnerability intelligence is a bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Write signatures to identify devices, services, and software based on the information extracted by the runZero scan engine.
• Research new ways to identify devices and assets, adding those capabilities to the runZero platform by writing Go code.
• Analyze network traffic and write network protocol parsers and probes in Go for integration into the runZero platform.
• Stay up to date with the threat intelligence landscape to address relevant threats for customers.
• Contribute to research reports, blog posts, conference presentations, and webcasts.
• Act as a domain expert in security/networking for the organization.