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Huntress is seeking a Principal Security Researcher to join their team. This role involves diving deep into technical, psychological, and educational aspects of security, with a focus on creating effective solutions against evolving threats. The ideal candidate will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to develop and implement a unified technical vision, securing businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line.
Role involves:
- Leading security capabilities and owning the layered defense strategy.
- Investigating Linux endpoint compromise and combatting attacker behavior.
- Testing attack paths and solving for exploitation of vulnerabilities.
- Developing Proof-of-Concept exploits for identified vulnerabilities.
- Identifying and prototyping telemetry data to expand prevention and detection capabilities.
- Analyzing and reverse engineering software to discover security weaknesses.
- Documenting research findings and identifying improvement opportunities.
- Coordinating with teams to integrate and operationalize solutions.
- Promoting Huntress’ reputation through media interaction and public speaking.
- Educating the public on security.
Requirements:
- Expert knowledge of Linux distributions, eBPF, kernel modules, and audit frameworks.
- Experience bypassing Linux EDR.
- Experience building exploit proofs of concept (POC).
- Expert knowledge of Linux vulnerabilities & threats.
- Expert knowledge of Linux logs.
- Knowledge of multi-tenant environments, especially supporting MSPs.
- Linux systems administration knowledge.
- Docker, Kubernetes knowledge.
- Experience with conducting searches and creating visualizations in Elastic and Kibana is a plus.
- Innovator builder mindset.
Huntress offers:
- 100% remote work environment.
- Generous paid time off policy.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans.
- 401(k) with a 5% contribution.
- Life and Disability insurance plans.
- Stock options for all full-time employees.
- One-time $500 reimbursement for home office.
- Annual allowance for education and professional development.
- $75 USD/month digital reimbursement.
- Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching.
