Security Research Lead
Cluj, UK, Israel, Romania, or Remote
Snyk
Snyk helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure. Continuously find and fix vulnerabilities for npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, PyPI and more.All roles listed as ‘remote’ are available as remote within the same country.
Title: Security Research Lead
Location: UK (London or remote), Romania (Cluj or Remote), Israel (Tel-Aviv or remote)
Intro
Snyk is a leader in Open Source security, responsible for the industry-leading vulnerability db, countless high end security research, an evolved vulnerability disclosure program for the open source community. Snyk’s security depth is a key part of our platform, and helps power our SCA, Container, SAST and Cloud offerings.
We're looking for a leader to help us to continue to build out the Security Research function for Snyk, and help drive the direction and execution of Snyk’s security strategy.
In this role, you’ll lead a team of researchers, engage with R&D leadership at Snyk, and collaborate with partners in industry, academia and open source communities.
Snyk has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture - we look for curious, creative people that are ridiculously easy to work with. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, and hardworking. If this sounds like a good fit for you, please say hello!
You’ll spend your time leading a team responsible for:
- Identifying new and open research questions that we’re especially well equipped to tackle
- Researching and discovering vulnerabilities (0-days), conducting PoCs and participating in blog post writeups. See SourMint, Zip Slip and VS Code as an example
- Building innovative, hi-scale infrastructure for automatic vulnerabilities hunting such as our malicious package detection system
- Providing domain guidance and expertise to other teams, and collaborating with them to enhance the security offering provided by the various Snyk products
- Working directly with leading open source maintainers to disclose new security issues and help secure their products
- Maintaining your knowledge in a specialized area of research, through engaging with the broader security community, attending meetups and conferences and reading widely
- Work alongside product and engineering leaders on key security product capabilities
- Collaborate with product marketing on sharing the team’s research and findings externally
We'd love to hear from you if you:
- Are energized by working in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- Have proven technical leadership experience in security research
- Have technical hands-on experience in cloud application security or developer security
- Enjoy building and leading research teams
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, and enjoy helping others to be successful
- Are happy to travel at least once a quarter to spend time working face-to-face with other colleagues that aren’t colocated with you
We’d especially love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience working with cutting-edge security technologies and research techniques
- Led and scaled security research teams
- Familiarity with the open source security market landscape and key technical trends
- prior experience working with cross-functional teams that are geographically distributed
Interested?
We'd love to hear from you - please apply below!
We value diversity at Snyk, and we particularly encourage applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech and security. If you like the sound of this role, but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, please do apply anyway - we would love to hear from you.
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About Snyk
Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world's developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture.
At Snyk, we envision an inclusive technology industry powering a more sustainable and secure world. Since our founding, Snykers have cared deeply for one another and the developer and security communities as well as the larger world around us. Learn more about our Snyk Impact social and environmental mission and take action with us here.
Snyk's Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer's workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce.
Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021, the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 and was named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST.
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