Vulnerability Researcher Remote
Vulnerability Researcher Remote
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Job Description
Why runZero
Fully remote
runZero is a 100 remote company! While we aim to gather annually for kickoffs our team thrives in the flexibility and freedom that remote work provides.
Productmarket fit & customer satisfaction
Our customers love us! We have hundreds of paying customers from midmarket to very large enterprises and thousands of freemium users. Want to learn about how runZero works and how it helps our customers You can listen to this podcast featuring our cofounder HD Moore (creator of Metasploit) hear from our customers or experience it firsthand with our 21day premium free trial.
Great benefits
At runZero we prioritize the wellbeing of our team members. We provide platinumlevel medical vision dental life and shortterm disability coverage for you and your dependents. Additionally we match 4 of 401K contributions offer unlimited PTO and provide equity to all employees.
Culture of collaboration
Our team is diverse representing various backgrounds and perspectives which fosters an inclusive and vibrant environment. With flexible schedules and supportive coworkers runZero promotes a culture of collaboration. Learn more about life at runZerohere!
The Opportunity
As a Vulnerability Researcher youll play a critical role in uncovering and analyzing vulnerabilities to strengthen runZeros detection and intelligence capabilities. From researching and monitoring security threats to collaborating with engineers on developing detection rules and vulnerability checks youll help drive impact by proactively identifying risks and surfacing insights for our customers.
What Youll Do
- Research current vulnerabilities and exploits using trusted sources and stay up to date with threat intelligence
- Proactively monitor securityrelated information sources to discover new vulnerabilities and attack vectors
- Apply analytical expertise to investigate malware phishing mobile and brand threats delivering actionable vulnerability intelligence
- Assess the impact of vulnerabilities on critical systems and advise stakeholders on remediation strategies
- Build custom detection rules identify unique attack attributes and surface vulnerable internetconnected assets
- Research and develop new exploits and attack techniques
- Produce root cause analyses and technical reports clearly communicating findings to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Work with engineers to develop vulnerability checks fingerprints queries and detections
- Collaborate with the engineering team to add findings to the codebase ideally in Golang
Skills You Have
- Handson experience with common vulnerability classes and exploitation techniques
- Familiarity with CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) and CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System)
- Experience using vulnerability and compliance scanning tools
- Solid grasp of security advisories vulnerability exploitation and threat impact
- Knowledge of regular expressions (regex) and SQL for querying large databases
- Experience collaborating with engineers on automated tooling and detection rules
- Familiarity with Git GitHub CI/CD processes
- Familiarity with at least one programming language and the ability to use it to automate tasks (e.g. Python Ruby or Go)
- Go experience is a big plus
Salary Range
runZero values transparency in the hiring process. According to our market data were expecting this role to come in at a salary of about $150000 $180000. We know that the talent market is always in flux so please let us know if you believe we have advertised this role in the wrong salary band
For more information on what its like to work at runZero visit our employee spotlight page!
Benefits
We offer an extensive set of benefits including:
- Top of the line medical dental vision life and disability coverages with runZero paying for 100 of the premium
- A stock option plan consistent with early stage rapidlygrowing startups
- A competitive salary composed of cash and equity compensation
- Unlimited PTO (We encourage everyone to take at least 25 days a year)
- 4 401(k) matching program
Applications
runZero positions are currently restricted to the United States and the United Kingdom. All other International applications will not be considered.
runZero is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race religion color sex gender identity sexual orientation age disability national origin veteran status marital status ancestry nationality or any other basis covered by applicable law.
We encourage underrepresented applicants to apply even if you dont think you fit 100 of the criteria (nobody ever does)!
Employment Type
Full Time
