GreyNoise Intelligence

Threat Researcher

GreyNoise Intelligence • $110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of computer networking fundamentals and protocols
  • Technical ability to analyze network traffic at the macro and packet level
  • Skills in offensive tooling and exploitation methodologies
  • Experience in open and commercial source intelligence research
  • Familiarity with query languages like SQL
  • Proven track record in producing and tuning detection rules
  • Experience with binary analysis and reverse engineering
  • Knowledge of threat intelligence frameworks and analytical tradecraft
  • Ability to analyze threats using graph-based analysis tools
  • Experience with AI and prompt engineering
  • History of presenting at relevant security and intelligence conferences

Responsibilities

  • Lead threat hunting initiatives using first-party data to uncover malicious activities
  • Conduct thorough analysis to attribute and disrupt cyber threats
  • Integrate new intelligence and tools to enhance threat analysis
  • Produce actionable intelligence for clients and the public

Benefits

  • Equity in a high-growth, Series-A startup
  • 100% covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for all employees
  • Competitive 401k with 100% match from day 1
  • Flexible paid time off with encouragement to take at least 120 hours annually
  • Remote-first culture with a distributed workforce
  • Equipment budget including an Apple Mac laptop and accessories
  • Four months of paid family leave for new parents
  • Annual $1,500 learning and development budget
  • Company offsites and monthly team bonding events
Full Job Description
The Role

GreyNoise is hiring a Threat Researcher who will develop and exploit first, second, and third-party access and sources to produce cyber threat intelligence that practitioners will use to detect, disrupt, and impose cost on adversaries.

Responsibilities:
  • Hypothesis and lead driven hunting through existing first-party data and telemetry to identify, analyze, and expose new and novel malicious cyber activity and campaigns
  • Cluster, track, attribute, research, and disrupt malicious cyber threats
  • Develop and integrate new intelligence information, data sources, tools, systems, and tradecraft to produce a more comprehensive threat picture
  • Produce and disseminate actionable intelligence to customers and the public


Required Skills
  • Deep understanding of computer networking fundamentals and protocols
  • Deep technical ability to hunt through network traffic (full PCAP) at the macro and packet level
  • Deep technical skills with offensive tooling, tradecraft, and exploitation methodologies against network edge devices
  • Experience in open and commercial source intelligence research (public blogs, commercial data sets, etc)
  • Experience with hardware and embedded systems
  • Experience with query languages (such as SQL)
  • Experience producing and tuning detection rules (such as Suricata, YARA, etc)
  • Experience with binary analysis and reverse engineering
  • Experience with cyber threat intelligence frameworks and analytical tradecraft
  • Experience tracking and analyzing analyzing threats using graph-based analysis tools (e.g., Synapse)
  • Experience using AI (prompt engineering, harness engineering, etc)
  • Experience presenting at relevant security and intelligence community conferences


A Few of our GreyNoise Labs Principles
  • Honesty
    • Put your best understanding of the truth first in all that you do.
  • Decency
    • Treat yourself and others with respect.
  • Opinions
    • Frame opinions using data or experience; they are still opinions.
  • Computers
    • Computers are cool, but that doesn't mean you won't hate them.


Benefits

Equity in a high-growth, Series-A startup

100% covered health, dental, vision, and life plans for all employees

6 Competitive 401k employer match of 6%, which is special for a startup. This will be 100% matched and vested from day 1

Flexible paid time off. To encourage time off from work and ensure overall employee health and wellness, GreyNoise strongly recommends each employee to take at least 120 hours of PTO (3 weeks) annually, including at least five consecutive business days

Remote-first culture. While we are headquartered in the Washington DC area, we have a distributed workforce -- with the majority of our team working remotely from across the country

Equipment budget. Every new employee gets an Apple Mac laptop and a $500 stipend for any equipment accessories.

👼 Paid family leave for all employees. We offer 4 months of paid leave (birth or adoption), plus 2 months of optional unpaid leave, so new parents have time to adjust to the new life (and work) schedule

Learning & development budget. All employees receive an annual $1,500 towards professional development related to their job function. The stipend can be applied to tuition, books, conferences, and more

Company offsites and monthly local hangouts to encourage team bonding

About GreyNoise Intelligence

GreyNoise Intelligence is a cybersecurity company that provides real-time internet threat intelligence. The company's platform collects and analyzes data from a variety of sources to identify and track malicious activity on the internet. GreyNoise Intelligence was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about GreyNoise Intelligence
Size
10 employees
Industry
Founded
2017
NASDAQ

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