Threat Analyst

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🕒 March 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $126k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧐 Analyst

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SOCKET

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1994

📡 Telecommunications

Telecommunications

SOCKET is a telecommunications company offering internet, phone, and television services to both residential and business customers. For residential customers, SOCKET provides straightforward service bundles with flat-rate pricing and local support, ensuring simplicity and ease with a single bill covering all services. For businesses, SOCKET offers a range of solutions from basic internet and phone services to advanced offerings like Hosted PBX and Dedicated Services, tailor-fit to meet different size and budget requirements. With a focus on transparent billing and no hidden fees, SOCKET distinguishes itself by providing reliable telecommunications solutions that cater to a diverse clientele.

📋 Description

• Analyze numerous unique threats daily, maintaining a standard of quality that sets the industry benchmark for supply chain security. • Author high-impact technical blog posts on malicious open source code packages and extensions, and publish deep-dive research pieces on malicious campaigns, threat actor profiles, novel attack vectors, and ecosystem-wide trends. • Design and build automated scripts and tools to streamline malware analysis, enhancing our data collection, threat analysis, and threat hunting workflows. • Partner with our engineering team to integrate your research into our core product, turning manual insights into scalable, real-time protection. • Leverage expertise in open source software ecosystems to enhance security across package registries, browser extensions (Chrome/VS Code), and proactively monitor GitHub/GitLab for emerging malicious campaigns. • Track APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) adversaries, characterizing various TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), capabilities, infrastructure, and campaigns.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of work experience and a master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • Technical experience across several areas of security operations, including investigations, incident response and management, digital forensics, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and detection engineering. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to assess the relevance and impact of threats. • Experience building tools for automation, data collection, and threat hunting. • Passion for open source and code. • Familiarity with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or other programming languages and ecosystems protected by Socket. • Experience leveraging LLMs or AI-based tools for threat detection.

🏖️ Benefits

• Market competitive salary bands • Meaningful equity program • Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family • Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge • Paid parental leave • Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites