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Bitsight

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

Bitsight is a global cyber risk management leader transforming how organizations manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of market-leading innovation, Bitsight’s integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance and data analysis.

📋 Description

• Lead a high-impact team expanding Bitsight’s ability to detect compromised systems worldwide • Drive innovation in data collection strategies, including broad-scale opportunistic domain sinkholing, bot emulation, and malware tracking • Develop a large victim intelligence capability • Own domain and malware triage workflows • Set priorities for targeted malware investigations • Champion and advocate for enhancing Bitsight product features with victim intelligence capabilities and data • Establish research and development priorities for new victim intelligence collection and analysis capabilities • Lead, mentor, and grow malware researchers and analysts • Develop and deploy malware emulators, trackers, and crawlers to collect infection telemetry • Research complex C2 communication channels, including P2P, direct IP, and hybrid models • Own victim intelligence data quality and drive continuous improvement • Partner with product, engineering, and data science teams to translate threat telemetry into scalable product capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Broad subject matter expertise across malware infrastructure and C2 methodologies • Experience developing detection rules and extracting IOCs from malware analysis • Demonstrated experience managing and leading high-performing technical teams in a research or security-focused environment • Demonstrated success architecting complex technical workflows, such as malware analysis, telemetry collection, or large-scale data processing • Strong communication and analytical skills, including identifying and solving ambiguous problems • Proficient in standard scripting languages such as Python and Go • B.S. in Computer Science or similar field, or commensurate experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Best in class benefits • Meal allowance, 9.60 EUR daily • Individual target bonus through the Corporate Bonus Plan, 15% annual • New Hire Stock Plan, 1,190 annual • Inclusive culture • Opportunity to fulfill professional goals and expand skills • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs