Sr. Threat Research Engineer

• An opportunity to shape the design of a novel product and have a significant role on the impact it makes in the enterprise security domain.
• To solve intellectually rewarding problems with a meaningful purpose.
• A position with high agency and trust on how you choose to work.
• An amazing work environment, competitive compensation, benefits and great perks.
• The rest of the great reasons to join Netskope as described in https: / / www.netskope.com / company / careers

What you will be doing

Some examples of the problems the team needs to solve could include:

• Implement security and compliance content to the product. Help make the correct security configuration decisions on behalf of our customers.
• Investigate SaaS design and data models and translate them to security graphs consumed by the SPM product. Study API design, hardening manuals and security best practices to discover the essential security caveats of the target applications.
• Find novel solutions to provide visibility, security, compliance and remediation tools for enterprise SaaS application environments.
• Explore different threat vectors for cloud services.
• Support multiple stakeholders such as engineering, research, product management, customer success, and customer support teams as a domain expert.
• Public writing and presentation opportunities, such as publishing articles, blogs or papers in relevant conferences.

Required skills and experience

We are open for applications with limited experience in the field who are able to demonstrate a keen interest in the information security domain and aptitude for research work. The technical domains you would be working on day one would benefit from demonstrable familiarity of the following:

• A decent understanding of Information Security. SaaS specific security experience preferable.
• Experience from security analysis work, pentesting, enterprise SaaS deployment hardening duties or from security content development.
• Proficient enough in scripting language ( Python, Shell ) of one s choice to be able to solve technical problems with code.
• Experience with public cloud security and other security solutions is an asset. Experience on novel product development, API-based automation and programming are great merits as well.
• Experience working with common database and search technologies such as SQL
• Experience working with big data frameworks such as Spark or BigQuary

Additional Skills

• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Fast learning skills, intuitiveness and creativity. Comfortable working in unknown domains.
• Be opinionated and not afraid of expressing oneself.
• Precise, careful and detail oriented.
• Ability to work in a geo-distributed cross-functional group in asynchronous fashion.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred