Principal Security Researcher - EDR (Windows)

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 183.000 - 246.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work

Paid time off

Parental leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Education assistance

Home office stipend

Zusammenfassung

Huntress, a remote-first cybersecurity company, seeks a Principal Security Researcher specialized in Windows EDR. You will design detectors, collaborate with Product and Engineering, and drive innovation across telemtry and analytics for 5M+ endpoints.

You will lead research initiatives, mentor teammates, and contribute to external talks and blogs while leveraging AI to accelerate impact and maintain state-of-the-art defenses against evolving threats.

Qualifikationen

• Expert in Windows OS internals and APIs with strong design knowledge.
• Experience with Windows kernel coding and device drivers.
• Proven ability to test EDRs, bypasses, and evasion techniques.
• Comfortable with reverse engineering and debuggers.
• Proficient in C/C++/C#, PowerShell, and Python.
• Uses AI to improve research quality and speed; documents findings clearly.
• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, SIGMA, Yara, and Elasticsearch/Kibana.

Aufgaben

• Identify Windows OS threat detection opportunities and create effective features.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Detection teams to implement logic.
• Investigate telemetry opportunities and address coverage gaps.
• Lead research initiatives and document findings for customers and teams.
• Mentor others and represent Huntress in media, CFPs, and blogs.

Kenntnisse

Windows internals

Kernel development

EDR testing

Reverse engineering

Programming languages

AI in research

Documentation

MITRE ATT&CK/SIGMA/Yara/Elasticsearch

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Yara

Sigma

Jobbeschreibung

# Principal Security Researcher - EDR (Windows)United States6 hours agoID 2872447Price on request## DetailsEmployment type: Full-timeRemote: YesCompany: HuntressLevel: Senior## DescriptionWhat We Do: Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection. Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other. Reports to: Manager, Product Research Location: Remote, US Compensation Range: $200,000 to $230,000 base plus bonus and equity What You’ll Do: The Huntress Product Research team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers. As a Principal Product Researcher, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats. Competitive candidates have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools. Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools is an additional way to differentiate yourself. As you can imagine, success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. An effective Product Researcher fosters highly collaborative environments between the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to accelerate our mission and secure the 99% of businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line. This collaboration is needed to produce and prioritize a unified technical vision that ultimately delivers our most impactful features and capabilities. We defend over 5M endpoints for 225,000+ mid-sized and small-business customers, and that number continues to grow each month. Given this market’s tighter budget, it’s not financially feasible to assign human analysts to each client. The Security Operations team addresses this challenge head-on by building and scaling highly automated efficiencies—often lightly augmented by our SOC — that make intruders earn every inch of their access while maintaining affordability and healthy gross margins. Roles and Responsibilities: • Identify innovative ways to detect Windows OS threats • Develop cross-platform features that leverage telemetry from common OS subsystems such as file system, memory, process, and network activity • Research and development of sensor capabilities to provide visibility and detection support for attack techniques across supported Windows OS versions • Work collaboratively with internal engineering and detection teams to implement detection logic • Identify and evaluate new telemetry opportunities • Identify and address gaps in product coverage • Respond to product escalations • Perform False Positive and False Negative investigations • Lead product research initiatives to develop and evaluate security product strategies and technologies • Coordinate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize solutions developed by Threat Operations teams • Applies AI as a practical part of day-to-day product research work to improve the speed, quality, and impact of research outputs • Uses AI to support information gathering, analysis, prototyping, and production of clear, decision-useful work products while maintaining accountability for the final output • Builds and reuses lightweight prompts, templates, or workflows for recurring research tasks rather than relying on one-off use • Develop internal and external technical documentation to educate customers and communicate research findings to adjacent teams about security risks and opportunities • Mentor and teach technical expertise to advance the broader community • Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, CFPs, CTFs, and blogs Qualifications: • Expert in Windows OS internals, components, APIs, and design • Prior experience with Windows OS kernel coding and device drivers • Experience testing EDRs, bypasses, and evasion techniques • Comfortable with reverse engineering and using debuggers • Proficiency in multiple programming/scripting languages, such as C/C++/C#, PowerShell, and Python • Applies AI to improve research quality, speed, and outputs in day-to-day work • Commitment to clear documentation of research findings • Experience with MITRE ATT&CK matrix, SIGMA, Yara, and Elasticsearch/Kibana What We Offer: • 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015 • Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans • 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution • Life and Disability insurance plans • Stock options for all full-time employees • One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office • Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance • $75 USD/month digital reimbursement...