Detection Development Engineer
Ann Arbor, Washington, DC, Seattle, or Bay Area
Full Time Entry-level / Junior USD 147K - 180K
Censys
Exposure Management, External Attack Surface Management, and Threat Hunting solutions powered by the most comprehensive dataset of internet intelligence.Censys knows the internet and cloud better than anyone else. Attack Surface Management provides customers with an attacker-centric view of all externally facing internet and cloud to extend visibility, prioritize, and remediate the most critical risk exposures that will actually lead to a breach. Our daily IPv4 scans and the world’s largest SSL/TLS Certificate database enable customers with the most accurate and continuously updated attack surfaces. Enterprise security teams leverage Censys to keep pace with the speed of the business and gain an advantage over the rapidly evolving cyber-attack threats.
Role Summary
Censys is looking for a Detection Engineer, Security Research Engineer, or Software Engineer to join our engineering team. You’ll be focused on increasing our risk and threat detection coverage and vulnerability database by seeking out and fingerprinting software, vulnerabilities, and emerging threats. You will also help conduct reconnaissance to help expand our capabilities to capture, monitor, and properly identify Internet resources. You will work directly with our scanning team to provide guidance on building and scaling the tools, active scanning infrastructure, and frameworks used to provide software coverage, risks, and threats in our Internet Intelligence Platform.
What you'll do
- Research and develop custom fingerprints against Censys scan data to further enrich and contextualize services and infrastructure running on the Internet.
- Consult with the Scanning Team for implementing possible changes to scanning targets, payloads, and collection of data to further increase the fidelity and accuracy of identification of software and hardware versions and models.
- Coordinate with our Rapid Response team to facilitate researching and fingerprinting of emerging vulnerabilities and threats.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or other technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
- 1+ years of experience in security research/systems security/network security or a similar field.
- Experience with protocol analysis and in-depth knowledge of common protocols such as TLS, HTTP, SSH, SMB, SMTP.High-level understanding of common network security vulnerabilities, CVSS scoring and exploit techniques.
- Experience exploring active scan data using tools such as Censys Search, Shodan, or similar; and/or experience with data analysis tools such as Google BigQuery.
- Proficient with regular expressions and other pattern-matching expressions.
- Ability to concisely communicate complex subject matter to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work independently as a researcher while being part of a larger cross-functional team.
Our target salary range for this role is between $147,000 USD and $180,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.
Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan with location hubs in Seattle, the Bay Area, Washington D.C., and Dublin, Ireland. Our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives and diverse backgrounds.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every qualification. At Censys we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace - so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every listed requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be exactly who we need to fill this role or others!
We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Censys is an equal opportunity employer.
Tags: C Cloud Computer Science CVSS Exploit Network security SHODAN SMTP SSH Threat detection TLS Vulnerabilities
Perks/benefits: Equity / stock options Salary bonus
More jobs like this
Explore more InfoSec / Cybersecurity career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Ethical Hacking, Pen Testing, Security Engineering, Threat Research, Vulnerability Management, Cryptography, Digital Forensics and Cyber Security in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Penetration Tester jobs
- Open Cloud Security Architect jobs
- Open Security Operations Engineer jobs
- Open Principal Security Engineer jobs
- Open Information Security Officer jobs
- Open Information Security Specialist jobs
- Open Senior Cyber Security Engineer jobs
- Open Senior Product Security Engineer jobs
- Open Chief Information Security Officer jobs
- Open Cyber Security Architect jobs
- Open IT Security Engineer jobs
- Open Senior Penetration Tester jobs
- Open Staff Security Engineer jobs
- Open Cyber Security Specialist jobs
- Open Security Specialist jobs
- Open Ethical hacker / Pentester H/F jobs
- Open Senior Network Security Engineer jobs
- Open Cybersecurity Consultant jobs
- Open Security Consultant jobs
- Open IT Security Analyst jobs
- Open Senior Information Security Analyst jobs
- Open Security Operations Analyst jobs
- Open Manager Pentest H/F jobs
- Open Information Security Architect jobs
- Open Information System Security Officer jobs
- Open Agile-related jobs
- Open Risk assessment-related jobs
- Open SOC-related jobs
- Open CISA-related jobs
- Open Analytics-related jobs
- Open Network security-related jobs
- Open ISO 27001-related jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open IAM-related jobs
- Open Application security-related jobs
- Open Pentesting-related jobs
- Open Threat intelligence-related jobs
- Open Vulnerability management-related jobs
- Open DoD-related jobs
- Open DevOps-related jobs
- Open Security Clearance-related jobs
- Open CEH-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open Security assessment-related jobs
- Open SaaS-related jobs
- Open Malware-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open EDR-related jobs
- Open TS/SCI-related jobs