Threat Research Engineering Lead

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Material Security

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email security • data loss prevention • data security • cloud email security • phishing incident response

51 - 200 employees

🔐 Security

🔒 Cybersecurity

Description

• As the Threat Research Engineering Lead at Material Security, you will be contributing directly to the product by guiding the team strategy and building tooling to improve our capabilities to detect and classify email-based threats. • Your day-to-day will involve the development of detection capabilities and tooling directly alongside world-class machine learning, data science, software engineers and security experts. • The work you do will directly translate into protection for the thousands of accounts protected by Material. • Drive team threat detection strategy and influence detection roadmap. • Improve the processes, tooling, and methodologies used to detect malicious messages. • Develop detections to detect email-based threats where other tools have failed. • Coordinate efforts with Machine Learning and Engineering teams to provide input on model development and detection capabilities. • Research attacker campaigns to fingerprint attacker activity, infrastructure, and tactics. • Identify signals and features that are useful for training message classification systems. • Ensure a high standard of privacy for our customers’ data.

Requirements

• Leadership: Demonstrates the ability to guide initiatives and influence cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement within the organization. • Technical Ability: Solid data analysis skills (SQL), experience authoring high-fidelity detections, and the ability to parse through large datasets. • Security Domain Expertise: A successful candidate should be intimately familiar with modern adversary behavior and techniques and understand how to leverage data sources to identify them. • Collaboration & Communication: We take pride in being a transparent security team that works hard to find ways to say "yes" and enables Material to grow quickly and securely. • Ownership: We love security engineers who deeply care about the impact of their work and find satisfaction in a job well done. • Breadth & Growth: Being a great engineer means continually learning new and more advanced techniques in your field, but also gaining a breadth of skills to bridge the gaps in getting things done.