OSINT Researcher (EU Remote)
OSINT Researcher (EU Remote)
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Job Description
SEON is the leading fraud prevention system of record catching fraud before it happens at any point across the customer journey. Trusted by over 5000 global companies we combine your companys data with our proprietary real-time signals to deliver actionable fraud insights tailored to your business outcomes. We deliver the fastest time to value in the market through a single API call enabling quick and seamless onboarding and integration. By analyzing billions of transactions weve prevented $200 billion in fraudulent activities showcasing why the worlds most innovative companies choose SEON.
As an OSINT Researcher at SEON you will be at the forefront of discovering analyzing and integrating publicly accessible data sources that enhance our fraud prevention capabilities. You will conduct in-depth investigations on websites platforms and mobile applications to extract actionable intelligence develop research prototypes in Python and collaborate closely with engineers to turn your findings into scalable production-grade solutions. This role will report into the Engineering Manager of Data Enrichment.
This is a remote position and the ideal candidate will be based in the EU.
What Youll Do:
- Conduct open-source investigations across websites platforms and mobile applications to uncover relevant and verifiable data points.
- Research hundreds of online sources and surface-level or deep web endpoints to identify patterns behaviors and structures for data extraction.
- Stay current with OSINT tools cyber intelligence practices and threat actor tactics in the digital fraud landscape.
- Collect analyze and organize intelligence from diverse public sources including data breaches forums and leaked datasets.
- Reverse engineer web and mobile applications to identify and extract accessible data points.
- Intercept and analyze network traffic using tools such as Burp Suite mitmproxy or Frida to understand client-server interactions.
- Build proof-of-concept scrapers and automation scripts in Python 3.9 to validate the viability of OSINT data sources.
- Use proxy infrastructure (residential datacenter rotating) to conduct distributed anonymized research at scale.
- Partner closely with software engineers to refine and productionize successful research findings into high-throughput data enrichment services.
- Proactively contribute to improving SEONs data-gathering platform by identifying new sources and more efficient data extraction methods.
- Participate in technical design discussions related to crawler architecture and OSINT pipelines.
What You Bring:
- Strong hands-on experience with Python 3.9 including libraries for HTTP requests asynchronous workflows scraping and automation.
- Proven web and mobile reverse engineering skills including traffic interception request signature decoding and anti-bot circumvention.
- Familiarity with tools like Burp Suite mitmproxy Frida or similar for debugging and traffic inspection.
- Experience using cyber intelligence platforms and mining publicly available data (including open forums leaks or search engines).
- Knowledge of fraud tactics and a keen interest in understanding threat actors and their digital footprints.
- A strong analytical mindset and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).
Amazing if You Also Have:
- Prior experience in structured OSINT investigations or cyber threat research.
- Contributions to open-source OSINT tools projects or participation in relevant communities.
- Background in penetration testing bug bounty programs or ethical hacking.
- Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda S3 etc.) and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with automation frameworks and/or OSINT-specific platforms like Maltego Spiderfoot or Recon-ng.
Employment Type
Full-Time
