[Hiring] Principal Cloud Security Researcher @CrowdStrike

Role Description

Cloud is where the modern breach lives. Adversaries don't need malware to win there: a leaked long-lived key, an over-trusted role, a misconfigured federation, or a poisoned CI/CD pipeline is enough. And they're no longer working by hand. Threat actors are AI-force-multiplied. They stand up campaigns in hours, enumerate cloud environments at machine speed, and generate permutations on the fly. We need to find, detect, and fix cloud attack paths at the same scale and velocity.

We're building toward that with agentic systems across the full lifecycle:

• Red: agentic red teaming that continuously discovers attack paths in cloud environments
• Blue: agentic detection and response for cloud
• Green: automated remediation, preventive policy, and posture guardrails

This is the senior-most research role for cloud within the Detection Content organization in Threat Detection Platform. It sits within the Cloud Detection team and has high visibility, high impact, and broad mandate:

• Set the research direction for all cloud content
• Lead the hardest projects personally
• Produce original research that moves the product and the industry forward

You will lead through expertise, technical direction, and influence. You'll have visibility across one of the largest cloud and identity telemetry footprints in the industry, front-line insight from our threat hunters and incident responders, and a platform that can turn a single research finding into protection for thousands of customers overnight.

Qualifications

• Strong detection engineering background
• Cross-domain thinking
• Threat landscape fluency
• Detection content lifecycle experience
• Strong communication and influence
• Technical leadership
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes

Requirements

• Set research direction across all cloud content
• Own the technical vision for cloud threat research spanning control plane, identity, workloads, and Kubernetes across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Lead offensive cloud and attack-path research
• Shape agentic red teaming for Cloud
• Guide agentic detection and response
• Investigate in-the-wild cloud threats
• Research the AI attack surface in the cloud
• Apply AI/LLM to research workflows
• Influence product and platform direction
• Be CrowdStrike's voice in cloud security research
• Mentor and raise the bar

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe