Censys
Senior Security Research Scientist
Remote (US) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago
BigQuerySnowflakeLinuxCybersecurityComplianceExcelTCP/IPResearchCommunication
About the role
- Role Summary: Security researchers have a strong technical background and excel at creative problem solving.
- The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, mine, transform, and analyze large datasets to identify patterns and trends to further support engineering efforts such as predictive modeling of scan targets, software and hardware identification, vulnerability detection, threat actor identification, and more.
- You rely on your expertise to guide your approach to investigations, including generating your own research ideas.
- One week you might perform detailed analysis of hosts vulnerable to a particular CVE, and the next week you may be asked to investigate which endpoints we need to scan to improve classification of networking devices.
Requirements
- High proficiency in using analytical databases and warehouse such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake, etc. to interrogate large datasets.
- Ability to conceive, execute, and derive actionable insights from measurements that involve Internet-wide scanning and data collection by using infrastructure to conduct experiments.
- Thorough understanding of Internet protocols and technologies, not just how they're used but how they work. This includes fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, etc.
- Have strong communication skills and can explain complex technical concepts to other engineers, designers, and product managers.
Nice to have
- Familiarity and comfort working in a Linux based environment.
- Continually improve skills, technical approaches, and familiarity with new technologies to help contribute to the success of the team.
Compensation
- For high cost of living areas (San Francisco Bay, New York City, and Seattle), the expected salary range for this position is $180,000 USD - $212,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
Benefits
- Work closely with multiple engineering teams to help inform technical decision making in regards to providing better coverage, context, and insights.
- This role will help provide the engineering teams with the information needed to provide better coverage, derive deeper insights from our data, and help surface these improvements directly to our customers.
Company info
- Company Background
- Censys' mission is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet.
- Frustrated by the lack of trustworthy Internet intelligence, we set out to create the industry's most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the Internet.
- Today, Censys delivers real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide.
- We are not currently engaging with third-party agencies for this role and will not accept unsolicited outreach.
- We kindly ask that you do not submit resumes or candidate profiles to our team.
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- The categories of information we may collect include identifiers (such as name and contact information), professional or employment-related information (such as work history, education, and references), and other information you provide in your application.
- We do not sell or share your personal information.
- Partner with Research and Product to deliver new security prototypes to customers as well as to guide where we should develop new products.
- As needed, serve as a public face for Censys by sharing knowledge and expertise around how Internet-wide security trends impact our customers across the public and private sectors, as well as the broader global security community
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