Senior Staff Security Researcher

Reach Security, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Pet insurance

Unlimited PTO

Sick time

Equity package

Job summary

Reach Security, Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Staff Security Researcher to collaborate with Engineering in translating research into product capabilities and expanding Reach’s integration and control library.

You will help prioritize new domain coverage and remediation mechanisms while building robust research tooling. You will replicate adversarial behavior to design detection strategies, create reproducible research environments, and support engineering with innovative remediation

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Information Security and/or Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research.
• Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks.
• Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling and proof-of-concepts.

Responsibilities

• Translate research into product capabilities and expand Reach’s integration and control library.
• Prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.
• Build reproducible research environments, tooling and sandboxes.
• Replicate malicious behavior to design detection and prevention strategies and collect evidence of attempted, detected, or blocked attacks.

Skills

Information Security

Offensive Security

Security Research

Detection Engineering

Red Teaming

Vulnerability Research

Software Engineering

AI systems experimentation

Technical Writing

Job description

About Reach Security:

Reach www.reach.security integrates with your existing security tools to identify blind spots across your defenses, prioritize fixes, automatically remediate misconfigurations, and continuously validate that your security posture remains strong

About the Role:

Reach Security seeking a skilled Senior Staff Security Researcher who will Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library. Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library.

• Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.

• Build reproducible research environments, tooling and sandboxes.

• Replicate malicious behavior to design detection and prevention strategies and collect evidence of attempted/detected/blocked attacks.

Requirements and skills

• 10 + years of experience in Information Security and or Engineering

• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research.

• Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks.

• Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling and proof-of-concepts.

• Deep curiosity and a habit of experimenting with new AI systems as they emerge.

• Exceptional technical writing and communication skills.

Working at Reach Security:

• Competitive salary, and equity package

• Comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including plan options with company-paid employee coverage

• FSA, HSA, and 401(k) plans

• Company paid life insurance and disability coverage, along with buy up options

• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, identify theft coverage, and legal services

• Unlimited PTO and sick time