Reports to: Senior Manager, Product Research
Location: Remote Canada
Compensation Range: CAD $155,000 - $185,000 plus bonus and equity
What We Do:
Founded in 2015 as a fully remote company by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress was built on a simple premise: to force hackers to earn every inch of their access. Today’s cyber-attacks aren’t limited to large organizations with the security tools that can ward off threats. Hackers don't discriminate and will find a way to penetrate any vulnerability in any size business, which is why Huntress focuses on protecting those small to midsize businesses that make up the backbone of our economy.Huntress stops hidden threats that sneak past preventive security tools by utilizing our award-winning security platform and expert human threat hunters through dynamic products, including Managed EDR, MDR for Microsoft 365, and Managed Security Awareness Training.Join the hunt and help us stop hackers in their tracks!
What You’ll Do:
Do you like getting into the weeds on all things technical, psychological, and educational and have a desire to know how things work? Then this is the position for you. We are looking for that jack of all trades who brings broad experience to each challenge presented. The Huntress Security team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers. As a Senior Security Researcher, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats.
Competitive candidates have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools. Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools are additional ways to differentiate yourself.As you can imagine, success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. An effective Security Researcher fosters highly collaborative environments between the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to accelerate our mission and secure the 99% of businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line. This collaboration is needed to produce and prioritize a unified technical vision that ultimately delivers our most impactful features and capabilities.We defend over 2.5M endpoints across 33,000+ mid-sized and small business customers, and that number continues to grow each month. Considering this market’s tighter budget, it’s not financially possible to dedicate human analysts to each client. The Security team addresses this challenge head-on by building and scaling highly automated efficiencies—often lightly augmented by our SOC — that make intruders earn every inch of their access while maintaining affordability and healthy gross margins.
Responsibilities:
- Define the value of a log. Not all log sources have equal security value, and not all logs from a single source hold the same value. You will guide the processing strategy for our SIEM product to extract maximum security value from the narrowest set of logs
- Guide the security Capabilities we bring to market, advising on the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple log sources
- Ensure our SIEM is usable; you speak for the SOC analysts and IR firms who will use this product daily
- Ensure our SIEM’s alerts are highly accurate and accepted by customers. We strive for 99% accuracy for critical alerts
- Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways
- Proven organizational and project management skills, with a keen attention to detail and a sense of urgency to deliver an exceptional product under tight deadline pressures
- Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders
- Passion to translate your expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%
- Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, and blogs
What You Bring To The Team:
- Proven track record selecting, deploying, and maturing a SIEM
- Experience working in a SOC
- Experience building a metrics-driven tuning program
- Experience in coverage gap analysis
- Experience in detection tuning
- Experience translating current trends in cyber security for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in translating MITRE TTPs to Customer value propositions
- Experience researching emerging tradecraft
What We Offer:
- Fully remote work
- New starter home office set up reimbursement ($661 CAD)
- Generous personal leave entitlements
- Digital monthly reimbursement ($167 CAD)
- RSP - Provided by SunLife with an employer contribution of 5%
- Access to both Udemy and BetterUp platforms for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.
Accommodations:
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