Security Research Engineer - Customer Success

You should be extremely passionate about building the next generation cloud native security product and researching modern cloud native security vulnerabilities and attacks. In this role, you'll partner closely with customers to understand their environments, align Traceables detection and protection capabilities with their use cases, and ensure smooth adoption, deployment, and ongoing success. You will also collaborate with product and engineering teams to bring real- world insights that shape the product roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with product, engineering, and customers in researching modern cloud native attacks and solving detection and protection use- cases in product.
• Working closely with customers to understand their application environment, security use- cases, and help map them to product features, and working closely with sales engineering in POCs and Deployments.
• Conducting a Security Assessment/Penetration Test.
• Research on the next generation of detection and protection methodologies.
• Designing and developing any internal tools for security research.
• Troubleshooting and debugging customer- facing issues around the detection and protection of attacks.
• Evangelise product capabilities in security researchers and pen testing communities by publishing relevant blogs/podcasts, etc.
• Studying cyber security attacks happening globally, doing root cause analysis for some of the relevant attacks, and understanding the relevance of Traceable product in preventing the attacks.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science.
• 1- 3 years of work experience.
• Experience in modern tech stack - microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platform (AWS/GCS, etc).
• Prior development experience and a fair understanding of programming languages and frameworks are a must.
• Proficiency in web app security, vulnerability research, and penetration testing.
• Strong experience with various pentesting tools like Burp Suite, ZAP, etc.
• Strong applied knowledge of attacks in Web/API eco- system - Web attacks, API attacks, API abuse, API Fraud, ATO, etc.
• Strong understanding of Application Security Solutions (WAF, RASP, etc. ).
• Working knowledge of IAST, DAST, and SAST.
• Nice to Have: Active participation in security communities like OWASP, NullCon.
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