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Threat Detection Researcher
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[Hiring] Threat Detection Researcher @Deepwatch
Mar 13, 2025 - Deepwatch is hiring a remote Threat Detection Researcher. 💸 Salary: $130,000 to $150,000 + stock options + benefits. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
The Threat Detection Researcher will participate in cybersecurity detection strategy, creation, tuning, validation, and correlation to ensure that Deepwatch customers have effective detections in place against an ever-changing threat landscape.
- Evaluate current monitoring and detection capabilities to identify areas for improvement
- Manage detection capabilities to ensure appropriate coverage, effective operation, and adherence to Deepwatch standards
- Detection Research
- Detection Creation
- Detection Tuning
- Assist in the development of Deepwatch’s detection strategy, researching new threats, technologies and developing new detections
- Research and assist in the design of risk-based detection mechanisms
Qualifications
- Experience with Google SecOps / Yara-L
- Cybersecurity experience in a technical role or experience working in a SOC/MDR/MSSP
- Ability to engineer creative, scalable, and out-of-the-box solutions
- Stay up to date with cybersecurity best practices, security technology trends, tools, and frameworks
- Experience working with and creating detections for SIEM tools and/or EDR platforms
- Understanding of common enterprise technologies and logging capabilities including Cloud, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Active Directory, Anti-Virus/EDR, Proxies, and Email Gateway
- Understanding of various attack frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and general adversarial / defensive security techniques (e.g. the Cyber Kill Chain, and NIST)
- Ability to communicate and document technical information effectively towards various audiences
- Experience working with version control systems to facilitate documentation of detection signatures
- Understanding of Threat Actors and their corresponding TTPs
- Ability to translate forensic and threat intelligence reports into detection capabilities
- Experience working with lab environments and simulation tools to test detection efficacy
- Understanding of sigma/yara as a detection framework
Requirements
- The anticipated salary range for this role is $130,000 to $150,000 + stock options + benefits. Actual compensation may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level.
- This position will have access to customer data and as such is subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
- Flexible Time Off (FTO), 9 company holidays, sick leave and 8-Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Unique professional development benefits, starting at $3,000 annually
- Wellness contests and monthly educational programs
- 401(K) retirement program with employer match
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$130,000 to $150,000 + stock options + benefits
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Mar 13, 2025
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