Staff Security Researcher
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BeyondTrustCybersecurity SaaS
Remote Canada | Remote United StatesFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMachine LearningSparkDatabricks
Requirements
- Strong engineering background with proven experience developing and maintaining production security systems
- Experience working with SIEM tools, log analysis platforms, or similar security data systems
- Knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and defensive strategies
- Background in security research with a focus on cloud, identity/IAM, or AI
- Experience in engineering event detection and response systems
- Proficiency with cloud and identity platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, Entra)
- Proficiency with SQL and database technologies
- Experience with distributed data processing frameworks
- Preferred: Big data processing experience (Apache Spark, Databricks)
- Preferred: Experience with graph databases and network analysis
- Preferred: Familiarity with machine learning applications in cybersecurity
- Preferred: Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Responsibilities
- Conduct original security research to identify emerging identity attack vectors and develop novel detection methodologies
- Design and implement advanced analytics including rule-based systems, behavioral analysis, and machine learning models for threat detection
- Expand and optimize large-scale entitlement graph systems mapping privilege escalation paths
- Develop proactive recommendation engines for security misconfigurations
- Integrate AI into engineering workflows
- Establish engineering best practices including unit testing, automation, and CI/CD
- Explore large-scale customer datasets using Spark and Databricks to validate detection hypotheses
- Collaborate with data science teams to integrate ML models into production systems
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to product and engineering teams
- Publish technical blogs and present at security forums
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