Staff Security Researcher

🕒 May 11

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BeyondTrust

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1985

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-05

Cybersecurity

BeyondTrust is a company that specializes in providing cybersecurity solutions. They focus on offering products and services that protect organizations from internal and external threats, and their solutions often involve privileged access management to secure and manage the identities and credentials of users accessing critical systems and data.

📋 Description

• 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 our large-scale entitlement graph systems that map privilege escalation paths across customer environments • Develop proactive recommendation engines that identify security misconfigurations before they become attack vectors • Utilize graph theory to build entitlement paths from new areas of research across multiple domains • Integrate AI usage into engineering workflows to optimize efficiency • Design custom data representations (graphs, time-series, etc.) to support advanced analytical capabilities • Establish engineering best practices including comprehensive unit testing, automation, and CI/CD pipelines • Explore large-scale customer datasets using Spark and Databricks to validate detection hypotheses and uncover new threat patterns • Continuously monitor and tune detection algorithms based on real-world telemetry and performance metrics • Collaborate with data science teams to integrate machine learning models into production detection systems • Optimize system performance to handle massive data volumes efficiently • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to product and engineering teams • Present research findings at industry conferences and security forums • Publish technical blogs and research papers to establish thought leadership • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research insights into product roadmap priorities

🎯 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 corresponding defensive strategies • Background in security research with a focus on cloud, identity/IAM, or AI. • Experience in engineering event detection and response systems with focus on tuning and optimization • Big data processing experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar distributed computing platforms • Background in security research with published findings or conference presentations • Knowledge of cloud security, containerization, and modern infrastructure technologies • Experience with graph databases and network analysis techniques • Familiarity with machine learning applications and AI in cybersecurity • Track record of speaking at technical conferences or contributing to security research publications • Active Directory or low level Windows knowledge.

🏖️ Benefits

• Diversity. Inclusion. They’re more than just words for us. They are the guiding values of how we build our teams, cultivate leaders, and create a culture where people feel connected. • We take care of our employees so they can take care of our customers. Customers who come from all walks of life just like us. We hire incredible people from diverse backgrounds because when we are different together, we are stronger together. • This position offers a rare opportunity to work at the cutting edge of identity security research while building systems that protect organizations worldwide. You'll have the freedom to pursue novel research directions, the resources to implement your ideas at scale, and the platform to share your expertise with the broader security community. We're looking for someone who thrives on solving hard problems, values engineering excellence, and wants to make a meaningful impact on the future of cybersecurity.