Senior Staff Security Researcher

Reach Security; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity package

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

Life insurance & disability coverage

401(k) with match

Unlimited PTO & sick time

Pet insurance & legal services

Job summary

Reach Security is seeking a Senior Staff Security Researcher to work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities and expand Reach's integration and control library. The role focuses on prioritizing domain coverage and remediation mechanisms while building reproducible research environments and tooling.

You will replicate attacker behaviors to develop robust detection and prevention strategies, contributing to a strong security posture across Reach's offerings.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in information security or engineering.
• 5+ years in offensive security, security research, or vulnerability research.
• Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting real-world attacks.
• Strong software engineering skills to build research tooling and PoCs.
• Deep curiosity and experimentation with AI systems as they emerge.
• Exceptional writing and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities.
• Expand Reach's integration and control library with new domains.
• Prioritize domain, product, and remediation coverage enhancements.
• Build reproducible research environments, tooling, and sandboxes.
• Replicate malicious behavior to design detection and prevention strategies.

Skills

Experience in Infosec/Engineering

Offensive security / red team

Attack analysis & detection

Software engineering for tooling

Curiosity about AI systems

Technical writing & comms

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