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Principal Product Researcher - Linux

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💎 Seniority level: Principal

📍 Location: US

💸 Salary: 200000.0 - 220000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Cybersecurity

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: DockerCybersecurityElasticSearchKibanaKubernetesLinuxDevOpsAnsibleScripting

Requirements:
  • Expert knowledge of Linux distributions, eBPF, kernel modules, and audit frameworks
  • Experience bypassing Linux EDR
  • Experience building exploit proofs of concept (POC)
  • Expert knowledge of Linux vulnerabilities & threats with the ability to emulate attacks
  • Expert knowledge of Linux logs
  • Expert knowledge of multi-tenant environments, especially supporting MSPs
  • Linux systems administration knowledge
  • Docker, Kubernetes knowledge
  • Experience with conducting searches and creating visualizations in Elastic and Kibana is a plus
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the security Capabilities we bring to market, owning the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple log sources
  • Investigate Linux endpoint compromise to understand, document & combat attacker behavior
  • Test attack paths. Hunt and solve for exploitation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
  • Hack to FIX things. Know how to break in and devise innovative fixes. Discover how to protect against attacks
  • Test exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths that result in developing reliable and weaponized Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits for identified vulnerabilities
  • Identify and prototype telemetry data that can be leveraged within Huntress to expand current prevention, hardening, and detection capabilities
  • Analyze and reverse engineer software to discover security weaknesses and undocumented features
  • Distinguish between suspicious and malicious events to reach the highest accuracy true positive rate
  • Conduct research and development efforts to further threat detection and security posture
  • Document research findings through technical write-ups, advisories, internal reports, and blogs
  • Identify improvement opportunities in existing product features and explore new ones based on feedback from partners, prospects, peers, and industry publications.
  • Coordinate with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize solutions you develop.
  • Own & nurture the cross-department relationships critical to successful product delivery & launch
  • Proven organizational and program management skills, with keen attention to detail and a sense of urgency to deliver an exceptional product under tight deadline pressures
  • Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders
  • Passion to translate your expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%
  • Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, and blogs
  • Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways
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