Staff Insider Threat Investigator & Forensics Engineer

Cribl; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Vision

Short-term disability

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Fertility treatment benefit

401(k)

Equity

Job summary

Cribl is seeking a staff-level investigator to bridge insider threat, digital forensics, and executive protection. This hybrid role requires leading end-to-end insider risk cases, briefing executives, and planning security for high-profile personnel and events.

You will be the senior technical and investigative resource on a small, high-trust team, maturing insider risk, forensics, and physical security programs while traveling as needed. Base salary ranges reflect geography and experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience across insider threat investigations, digital/hardware forensics, and physical/executive protection.
• Demonstrated experience serving as lead investigator on insider risk cases involving sensitive, high-stakes, or legally exposed matters.
• Working knowledge of employment law, HR investigation standards, and confidentiality requirements as they apply to internal investigations.
• Hands-on forensic skills with standard tooling (EnCase, FTK, Cellebrite, X-Ways) and hardware-level forensic techniques.
• Active or recent certification through IACIS (CFCE) or comparable digital forensics credentialing body.
• Prior experience in executive protection, including travel risk assessment/intelligence gathering and direct coordination with executive support staff.
• Excellent judgment and discretion; ability to hold confidentiality under pressure and manage competing stakeholder interests.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical forensic findings for non-technical, legal, and executive audiences.
• Willingness and ability to travel on short notice, including internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead insider risk investigations from initial detection through closure, including scoping, evidence collection, interviews, findings, and remediation recommendations.
• Partner closely with HR, Legal, and Employee Relations to ensure investigations are conducted defensibly, confidentially, and in compliance with employment law and privacy requirements.
• Build and mature insider risk program components: detection use cases, escalation criteria, case management workflows, and cross-functional playbooks.
• Brief sensitive findings to senior stakeholders (Legal, HR, executive leadership) with appropriate discretion and documentation.
• Conduct forensic acquisition and analysis of laptops, mobile devices, removable media, and network artifacts in support of investigations.
• Maintain chain of custody and produce forensically sound, litigation-ready documentation.
• Perform hardware-level forensics (disk imaging, device teardown/analysis, embedded storage) in addition to standard digital forensics.

Skills

Insider threat investigations

Digital forensics

Physical security

Executive protection

Forensic tooling

Travel risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

IACIS CFCE certification

Tools

EnCase

FTK

Cellebrite

X-Ways

Job description

Cribl is seeking a staff-level investigator to bridge insider threat, digital forensics, and executive protection. This hybrid role requires leading end-to-end insider risk cases, briefing executives, and planning security for high-profile personnel and events.

You will be the senior technical and investigative resource on a small, high-trust team, maturing insider risk, forensics, and physical security programs while traveling as needed. Base salary ranges reflect geography and experience.