Senior Threat Research Engineer, Material Security
Email & cloud office security
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Email & cloud office security
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
Their goal is resilience, and they build security that works (and works simply).
Role
Who you are
- Technical Ability: Solid data analysis skills including writing SQL queries, experience writing detections, responding to security incidents, and the ability to parse through large datasets
- Security Domain Expertise: A successful candidate should be intimately familiar with modern adversary behavior and techniques and understand how to leverage data sources to identify them
- Collaboration & Communication: We take pride in being a transparent security team that works hard to find ways to say "yes" and enables Material to grow quickly and securely
- As a Security Engineer, you'll be working closely with software engineers, data scientists, and product managers. This requires a collaborative spirit and great communication skills
- Ownership: We love security engineers who deeply care about the impact of their work and find satisfaction in a job well done
- The Security Team at Material is passionate about building things in a first-class manner and avoiding shortcuts that accrue technical debt and increase toil across the team. We expect candidates to understand how to build and implement tooling to be robust and resilient
- Breadth & Growth: Being a great security engineer means continually learning new and more advanced techniques in your field, but also gaining a breadth of skills to bridge the gaps in getting things done
- Whether it is improving your software development abilities, becoming an expert in a specific security subdomain, product management, or customer care, you have the drive to learn more and more
What the job involves
- As a Senior Threat Research Engineer at Material Security, you will be contributing directly to the product by improving the capability to detect email-based threats
- Your mission is to leverage your analytical skills to identify and track threats and adversaries that have been able to sneak past other email security systems and to help mature our internal detection and response program
- You will also improve our process of creating and maintaining our detection system. Your day-to-day will involve a mix of exploration, analysis, triage, and building directly alongside world-class engineers and security experts
- Improve the processes, tooling, and methodologies used to detect malicious or otherwise dangerous emails
- Author detection rules that allow customers to detect email-based threats where other tools have failed
- Research attacker campaigns to identify ways to fingerprint attacker activity, infrastructure, and tactics
- Identify signals and features that are useful for training message classification systems
- Ensure a high standard of privacy for our customers’ data
- Work with our Security Architects and customers to drive down risk by improving customer email security posture and leveraging their data to enable them to make better informed decisions around risk
Our take
Email hacks are a real and immediate threat for businesses. Material Security is setting out to solve this problem by protecting companies and their employees.
Material Security was founded following the 2016 election hacking scandal, tapping into widespread demand for more resilient email protection. The company is led by a team of experienced ex-Google and Dropbox managers, which has shaped its tech considerably. The company is now valued at over $1 billion, an impressive testament to the quality of its solutions.
Material Security's main challenge will be competing with rival security providers. However, given its unicorn status, the company is likely to scale even further in the coming years and is well poised to open up a significant market lead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$100m
SERIES C
May 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Remote work flexibility
- Equity
- 100% coverage of Health, Dental, & Vision premiums for employees + dependents
- 401k plan
- Parental leave & fertility support
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Reimbursement for your dream home office
- Reimbursement for cell phone & internet
- Quarterly company offsites
- Secret & "totally a surprise" birthday treat
- Monday morning weekend updates
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ryan Noon
(Co-Founder & Chairman)Worked as an Engineering Lead at Ayasdi, and founded Parastructure, which was acquired by Dropbox. Went onto serve as an Engineering Manager at Dropbox.
Abhishek Agrawal
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Office Labs, and was a Senior Product Manager at Dropbox.
Christopher Park
(Co-Founder & VP Engineering)Worked as a Senior Software Developer at Camstar Systems, and was a Software Engineer at Google and Parastructure. Joined Dropbox as an Engineering Manager.
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