Engineering Manager, Applied Research

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September 30

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Cybersecurity • Security • SaaS

runZero is a cybersecurity company that offers a platform providing complete security visibility across IT, OT, IoT, cloud, mobile, and remote assets. Their platform is designed to manage the cyber asset attack surface, mitigate exposures, and ensure risk and compliance. runZero is known for its fast deployment, scalability, and seamless integrations with various tools to enhance network visibility and enrich asset data. They offer a community edition that is free for environments with fewer than 100 assets. runZero's proprietary technology combines active scanning with passive discovery to provide detailed network and asset insights, which reveal vulnerabilities and insecure configurations, enabling proactive security management.

51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of researchers focused on creating best-in-class vulnerability management and risk detection content. • Lead prioritization and task delegation for the Applied Research team in partnership with Marketing and Engineering, ensuring the timely release of coverage and actionable intelligence on emerging risks. • Adapt and extend open source and proprietary technologies, including the Nuclei vulnerability scanner, to produce highly performant and highly accurate vulnerability detections. • Research and implement new techniques for active and passive asset discovery, including network protocol parsers and implementations, external and internal network scanning, and detection of IT, IoT and Operational Technology devices. • Stay ahead of trends in vulnerability and threat intelligence to prioritize the most impactful research for customers. • Share expertise through blogs, webcasts, and industry conferences. • Foster a culture of curiosity, quality, and continuous improvement within the research team. • Contribute directly to research and content creation as a player-coach on the Applied Research team.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on technical expertise in one or more of: network scanning, device fingerprinting, or vulnerability detection. • Proficiency in writing Go and experience working with large Go codebases. • Deep understanding of modern networking protocols and network analysis tools (e.g., Wireshark). • Familiarity with SQL and querying large datasets. • Comfortable with regular expressions. • Experience mentoring or managing engineers/researchers, with the ability to inspire and uplevel a team. • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams. • A proactive, problem-solving mindset and a passion for vulnerability research and exposure management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote: runZero is a 100% remote company! While we aim to gather annually for kick-offs, our team thrives in the flexibility and freedom that remote work provides. • Benefits: runZero pays for 100% of the premium platinum-level medical, vision, dental, life, and short-term disability coverage for you and your dependents. • 401k: We match 4% of 401K contributions • Time off: We offer unlimited PTO, 11 official company holidays, and a recharge week at the end of the year • Paid parental leave: We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave • Culture of collaboration: Our team is diverse, representing various backgrounds and perspectives, which fosters an inclusive and vibrant environment with flexible schedules and supportive coworkers. • Stock options • And more!