Threat Intelligence Engineer for Sales Engineering

Zafran Security; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health insurance

Phone stipend

Internet stipend

401k

FSA

Home office stipend

Claude AI access

Job summary

Zafran is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Analyst to join the Sales Engineering team. You will build tooling, validate customer environments, and own threat intelligence to support go-to-market efforts.

You will connect customer security stacks and ensure data quality to accelerate evaluations. You will research live environments, analyze risk, and present findings directly to customer security teams while collaborating with Product, R&D, and Engineering to improve detection and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a proven track record in research analysis, threat intelligence, threat detection engineering, or threat hunting.
• Ability to collect, process, analyze, and interpret large and imperfect datasets to derive actionable insights, and to reach a conclusion you can defend under challenge.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages, with a default instinct to automate a repetitive problem rather than repeat it.
• Working knowledge of enterprise security controls - EDR, NGFW, WAF, CNAPP and cloud security, vulnerability scanners - and how each one actually mitigates risk in practice.
• Experience with network/security-related data analysis.
• Proficiency in SQL and TCP/IP network fundamentals.
• Comfort working directly with customers. You can hold technical ground with a skeptical security team and explain a finding clearly instead of hiding behind jargon.
• Strong team player with excellent collaboration skills, and experience managing multi-departmental interactions with cybersecurity professionals, engineering teams, and product managers.
• Self-directed, low-ego, and comfortable with ambiguity and the pace of a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the tooling the field runs on - scripts, automations, and data utilities that shorten POV setup and remove manual work from the Sales Engineering team.
• Partner with Sales Engineers to stand up Proofs of Value: tenant configuration, integration scoping, data validation, and instrumentation of success criteria.
• Bring in customer data. Connect the customer's existing security stack, validate coverage and data quality, and resolve the ingestion issues that quietly stall evaluations.
• Research customer and partner environments for risk. Analyze vulnerability posture, deployed security controls, and exposure paths to separate what is genuinely exploitable from what is already mitigated by controls the customer already owns.
• Own threat intelligence for the go-to-market organization. Track emerging CVEs and active exploitation campaigns, drive rapid response when something breaks in the news, and arm the field with a credible answer within hours.
• Present findings directly to customer security teams, and back up Sales Engineers when a conversation needs research depth.
• Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Research - feeding field findings, data gaps, and detection misses back with the specifics needed to act on them, and validating new mitigation logic against real customer data.

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

Data analysis

Programming/scripting

Security controls

Network data analysis

SQL

TCP/IP fundamentals

Customer communication

Team collaboration

Self-directed

Tools

GO

Python

Job description

Zafran is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Analyst to join the Sales Engineering team. You will build tooling, validate customer environments, and own threat intelligence to support go-to-market efforts.

You will connect customer security stacks and ensure data quality to accelerate evaluations. You will research live environments, analyze risk, and present findings directly to customer security teams while collaborating with Product, R&D, and Engineering to improve detection and