Socket
Threat Researcher
AMER · Junior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 210 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftGitRESTLLMsCybersecuritySOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseFigmaSupply ChainResearchCommunication
About the role
- Socket is looking for a Threat Researcher to join our growing Threat Intelligence Team.
- You'll secure open source ecosystems, strengthen threat detection across multiple programming languages, and conduct research that helps protect developers and organizations worldwide.
- This is a hands-on role for someone passionate about threat hunting, security research, automation, and turning insights into actionable defenses.
Responsibilities
- Design and build automated scripts and tools to streamline malware analysis, enhancing our data collection, threat analysis, and threat hunting workflows.
- Partner with our engineering team to integrate your research into our core product, turning manual insights into scalable, real-time protection.
- Experience building tools for automation, data collection, and threat hunting.
Requirements
- 3+ years of work experience and a master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to assess the relevance and impact of threats.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or other programming languages and ecosystems protected by Socket.
- Experience leveraging LLMs or AI-based tools for threat detection.
Compensation
- Market competitive salary bands
Benefits
- Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work.
- Meaningful equity program
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
- Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
- Paid parental leave
Company info
- Socket helps devs and security teams ship faster by cutting out security busywork. Thousands of orgs use Socket to safely find, audit, and manage open source code. Our customers - from Anthropic to xAI, and Figma to Vercel - love Socket (just check out their tweets https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!)
- Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $ https://socket.dev/blog/series-b125M in funding https://socket.dev/blog/series-c from top angels, operators, and security leaders.
- Socket helps devs and security teams ship faster by cutting out security busywork.
- Thousands of orgs use Socket to safely find, audit, and manage open source code.
- Our customers - from Anthropic to xAI, and Figma to Vercel - love Socket (just check out their tweets https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!)
- We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
- We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
- Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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