Principal Security Researcher, Huntress

• Expert knowledge and technical expertise in Google ecosystem including: logs, APIs, multi-tenant environments, especially supporting MSPs, Google Workspace editions, and business plans with the ability to maximize value across business plan levels, GCP; security products such as: Chrome Enterprise, BeyondCorp, Google Identity Premium, and Google Vault
• Google security stack expertise: chrome enterprise/beyond corp, google identity premium
• Expert knowledge of Google multi tenant environments especially supporting MSPs
• Expert knowledge of Google Workspace editions and business plans with the ability to maximize value across business plan levels
• Proof of Concept (POC) development
• Comfortable reading API documentation for SaaS applications and programming languages
• Understanding of how MSPs utilize IT automation tools such as PSAs and RMMs preferred
• Experience with conducting searches and creating visualizations in Elastic and Kibana a plus
• Innovator builder mindset – you are not afraid to build in the open and share the ugly early versions of your work using feedback to iterate your research & learning
• Expert knowledge and experience configuring and leveraging Google Workspace organizational units (OUs), group permissions, settings & APIs including Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Takeout, & Docs scripting engine
• Expert knowledge and experience configuring and leveraging Google Workspace security policies including SSO, two-factor authentication, password policies, and data loss prevention (DLP) to protect sensitive information
• Expert knowledge and experience managing security settings like configuring email security, spam filtering, malware detection, and phishing protection
• Security conference presenters and community educators preferred

Desirable

• Reports to: Director, Product Research
• We are looking for that jack of all trades who brings broad experience to each challenge presented
• The Huntress Security team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers
• As a Security Product Researcher, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats
• Competitive candidates have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools
• Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools are additional ways to differentiate yourself
• As you can imagine, success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. An effective Security Researcher fosters highly collaborative environments between the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to accelerate our mission and secure the 99% of businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line
• This collaboration is needed to produce and prioritize a unified technical vision that ultimately delivers our most impactful features and capabilities
• Lead the security Capabilities we bring to market, owning the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple log sources
• Conduct research and development efforts to further threat detection and identity security posture
• Investigate identity compromise, initial access + authentication logins, and subsequent access to understand, document & combat attacker behavior
• Hunt threat actors in Google Workspace, AuthN, AuthZ, OAuth, & token authentication audit logs to determine Google environment initial access, abuse and persistence
• Test attack paths. Hunt and solve for identity hijacking via discovering exploitation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
• Hack to FIX things. Know how to break in and devise innovative fixes. Discover how to protect against attacks
• Test exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths that results in developing reliable and weaponized Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits for identified vulnerabilities
• Identify and prototype telemetry data that can be leveraged within Huntress to expand current prevention, hardening, and detection capabilities
• Analyze and reverse engineer software to discover security weaknesses and undocumented features
• Distinguish between suspicious and malicious login events to reach the highest accuracy true positive rate
• Elevate and nurture the cross-department relationships critical for successful product delivery & launch. Coordinate with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize security solutions. Build high-trust, high-value relationships with product leads
• Document research findings through technical write-ups, advisories, internal reports, and blogs
• Identify improvement opportunities in existing product features and explore new ones based on feedback from partners, prospects, peers, and industry publications
• Coordinate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize solutions developed by you + the research team
• Partner with Support, Detection Engineering, SOC, Hunt & Adversary Tactics teams
• Own & nurture the cross-department relationships critical to successful product delivery & launch
• Proven organizational and program management skills, with keen attention to detail and sense of urgency to deliver an exceptional product under tight deadline pressures
• Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders
• Passion to translate your expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%
• Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, and blogs
• Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways