Senior Staff Security Researcher

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About Trellix:

Trellix, the trusted CISO ally, is redefining the future of cybersecurity and soulful work. Our comprehensive, GenAI-powered platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Along with an extensive partner ecosystem, we accelerate technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 53,000 customers with responsibly architected security solutions.
We also recognize the importance of closing the 4-million-person cybersecurity talent gap. We aim to create a home for anyone seeking a meaningful future in cybersecurity and look for candidates across industries to join us in soulful work. More at https://www.trellix.com/.

Role Overview:

About the role: 

• Develop network signatures that protect our customers against network-based threats and vulnerabilities
• Collaborate with the engineering and PM teams to develop new detection enhancements
• Build and improve tools to automate analysis tasks, simulation software and administer the lab environment to replicate attacks.
• Analyze network protocols to develop and/or update parsers when needed
• Publish technical blogs to spread awareness and help defenders with the necessary resources to protect their organizations.
• Mentor junior members of the team and network attacks

About you:   

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field of study
• Significant experience with network rule creation like Snort
• Strong understanding of network protocols and security architectures
• Highly proficient in any scripting languages such as Python
• Strong understanding of the attacker landscape and knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK methodologies
• Experience with software validation/testing
• Excellent research and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative work style
• Proficient in verbal and written communication careers.trellix.com
• Nice to have
• Vulnerability analysis experience
• Development experience to help build/maintain automated tools

Company Benefits and Perks:

We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Retirement Plans

• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

• Paid Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave

• Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.