Senior Security Researcher, SIEM

Location: Remote US Reports to: Director of Product Research Compensation Range: $160,000 to $180,000 plus bonus and equity What We Do: Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service. We protect 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting. Responsibilities: Define the value of a log. Not all log sources have equal security value, and not all logs from a single source hold the same value. You will support the processing strategy for our SIEM product to extract maximum security value from the narrowest set of logs Support the security Capabilities we bring to market, implement the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple log sources Lead various vendor log source detection strategies + implementation Leverage AI for threat detection Hunt threat actors to discover attacker initial access, abuse, and persistence Test attack paths. Develop high-efficacy detections security product requirements that shut out attackers Safely ethically test exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths that result in developing reliable and weaponized Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits for identified vulnerabilities Identify telemetry that confirms malicious activity with high confidence, even when little or no environment baselines exist Distinguish between suspicious and malicious login events to reach the highest accuracy true positive rate Conduct research and development efforts to further threat detection and security posture Document research findings through technical write-ups, advisories, internal reports, and blogs Ensure Huntress SIEM alerts are highly accurate and customer-accepted. We strive for 99% accuracy for critical alerts Collaborate with the Principal Researcher to deliver unified SIEM outcomes Build high-trust, high-value product leads and cross-department relationships critical to successful product delivery launch Proven organizational skills with keen attention to detail and a sense of urgency to deliver exceptional outcomes under tight deadline pressures Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders Passion to translate your expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99% Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, and blogs Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways What You Bring To The Team: Understand various log types + how they correlate to attacker tradecraft Deployed and matured SIEM technology (vendor agnostic, preferred) Experience with AI for threat detection Performed successful threat hunting in SIEM platforms with particular focus on top security vendor log sources Developed proofs of concept set up attack simulation environments to generate logs and text attack paths Experience working in a SOC Built a metrics-driven tuning program Executed coverage gap analysis Skilled at translating current trends in cybersecurity for both technical and non-technical audiences Skilled at translating MITRE TTPs to Customer value propositions Skilled at researching emerging tradecraft Experience triaging business email compro ... (truncated, view full listing at source)