Engineering Manager, Applied Research (Remote)
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
What we do
At runZero were a team of dreamers and creative thinkers who arent afraid to shake up the status quo. Fixing whats broken with legacy vulnerability management and overcoming persistent decades-old problems requires a new approach.
Our platform provides a single source of truth for exposure management across the total attack surface. Without requiring agents authentication or appliances runZero delivers the most complete and accurate visibility into every asset and exposure across internal external IT OT IoT mobile and cloud environments including uncovering unknown and unmanageable devices and broad classes of exposures that evade traditional tools.
Founded by HD Moore (creator of Metasploit) runZero is trusted by more than 500 companies and 30000 users worldwide to find and mitigate risks faster meet compliance requirements and improve overall security. See for yourself with a free trial!
Role
Were searching for a hands-onEngineering Manager Applied Researchwho can lead and mentor a team while contributing directly to our mission of delivering industry-leading security intelligence. At runZero were building the industrys leading Exposure Management platform. As a research manager youll lead and manage a team of researchers focused on developing our network scanner and accompanying security content including remote vulnerability and misconfiguration detections device fingerprinting protocol implementations and emergent risk queries.
This is a player-coach role: youll be guiding and upleveling the team while also contributing directly to the research and content creation process. Were looking for someone who thrives in both leadership and technical work and who brings a strong work ethic curiosity and passion for the industry.
Responsibilities
- Lead mentor and grow a team of researchers focused on creating best-in-class vulnerability management and risk detection content.
- Lead prioritization and task delegation for the Applied Research team in partnership with Marketing and Engineering ensuring the timely release of coverage and actionable intelligence on emerging risks.
- Adapt and extend open source and proprietary technologies including the Nuclei vulnerability scanner to produce highly performant and highly accurate vulnerability detections.
- Research and implement new techniques for active and passive asset discovery including network protocol parsers and implementations external and internal network scanning and detection of IT IoT and Operational Technology devices.
- Stay ahead of trends in vulnerability and threat intelligence to prioritize the most impactful research for customers.
- Share expertise through blogs webcasts and industry conferences.
- Foster a culture of curiosity quality and continuous improvement within the research team.
Requirements
- Hands-on technical expertise in one or more of: network scanning device fingerprinting or vulnerability detection.
- Proficiency in writing Go and experience working with large Go codebases.
- Deep understanding of modern networking protocols and network analysis tools (e.g. Wireshark).
- Familiarity with SQL and querying large datasets.
- Comfortable with regular expressions (and maybe even enjoy them).
- Experience mentoring or managing engineers/researchers with the ability to inspire and uplevel a team.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- A proactive problem-solving mindset and a passion for vulnerability research and exposure management.
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 $225000 - $275000 plus stock options. We know that the talent market is always in flux so please let us know if you believe we have advertised this role at the wrong salary band.
Interview process
We value your time and see the interview process as a critical two-way street allowing us to assess your skills strengths and cultural fit while simultaneously providing you with a clear understanding of our company our ways of working and the expectations specific to the role youre seeking. To this end our interview process incorporates a combination of:
- Initial one-on-one interviews with a recruiter and manager
- Panel interviews with the team
- Candidate challenge - a role-specific challenge designed for you to showcase your strengths and allow us to assess your skills in a hands-on exercise
- A final interview conducted either remotely or in-person if we havent yet met face-to-face in previous rounds
How we take care of you
- Fully remote: runZero is a 100% remote company! While we aim to gather annually for kick-offs our team thrives in the flexibility and freedom that remote work provides.
- Benefits: We prioritize the well-being of our team members which is why runZero pays for 100% of the premium platinum-level medical vision dental life and short-term disability coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401k: We match 4% of 401K contributions
- Time off: We offer unlimited PTO 11 official company holidays and a recharge week at the end of the year
- Paid parental leave: We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 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 who listen to one another runZero promotes a culture of collaboration.
- And more!
For more information on what its like to work at runZero please visit our employee spotlight page!
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 under-represented applicants to apply even if you dont think you fit 100% of the criteria (nobody ever does)!
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
runZero delivers the fastest, most complete security visibility possible, giving organizations the ability to easily manage risk and exposure. Try it free!
