Senior Exploit & Threat Researcher (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a motivated security researcher to analyze exploits observed in the wild as part of the Intelligence team. This highly technical, defensive role focuses on reverse engineering, documenting exploitation techniques, and developing automation to support adversary tracking.

You will contribute to threat intelligence, collaborate across teams, and help improve exploit mitigation with empirical analysis and Signatures. Remote work with occasional travel is involved.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in exploitation techniques commonly seen in userspace and kernel vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of network service exploitation techniques.
• OS proficiency including Windows; strong reverse engineering capability.

Responsibilities

• Implement tracking systems informing cross-team adversary tracking based on exploitation behavior.
• Develop host-based and network-based signatures for large-scale hunting, detection and prevention of exploits.
• Produce high-quality threat intelligence reporting with actionable mitigation guidance.

Skills

Exploitation techniques

Reverse engineering

Python

Technical writing

Adversary tracking

Linguistic communication

Education

MA/MS in Computer Science

Tools

IDA Pro

Ghidra

Debuggers

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a motivated security researcher to analyze exploits observed in the wild as part of the Intelligence team. This highly technical, defensive role focuses on reverse engineering, documenting exploitation techniques, and developing automation to support adversary tracking.

You will contribute to threat intelligence, collaborate across teams, and help improve exploit mitigation with empirical analysis and Signatures. Remote work with occasional travel is involved.