Senior Cloud Threat Detection Engineer

4 weeks ago


Austin, United States CrowdStrike Full time

About the Role:

The CrowdStrike Cloud Content team is an integral part of the Content Product Group, tasked with the critical mission of safeguarding cloud environments through innovative detection and response capabilities. This specialized team comprises cloud security experts, researchers, and detection engineers in various time zones working in unison to ensure our customers' cloud workloads are secure against the ever-changing threats in the security landscape.

This role provides a unique opportunity to join a team with strategic importance to protecting our customers from emerging threats and novel attack methodologies in both cloud and Linux based environments. You will stay ahead of the curve with regards to the threat landscape and your research will directly impact the direction of the team and our product.

If you have a strong passion for security and technology, have an interest in supporting engineering projects, and want to gain real-world experience in dealing with advanced threat actors targeting cloud environments, we have a role for you
Your contributions will enable continuous improvement of CrowdStrike's cloud detection capabilities ensuring that our customers can be secured with the most advanced security measures in place.

What You'll Do:

  • Develop, implement and optimize threat detection rules tailored to cloud runtime environments. Aim to detect and respond to activity as early in the killchain as possible

  • Rapid response to potential malicious campaigns or extensive exploitation cloud runtime resources post vulnerabilities disclosure

  • Conduct proactive threat hunting exercises to identify potential security gaps and emerging threats within cloud environments

  • Track and present threat detection findings, including recommended strategies or possible product improvements

  • Collaborate with cross functional teams: Work closely with various teams, including OverWatch, engineering, product management, detection engineering, and threat intelligence to drive cloud detections in the Crowdstrike Falcon platform

  • Stay abreast of the latest threat landscape and cloud security trends, continuously updating detection strategies to address emerging threats and vulnerabilities

  • As part of your role, you will be required to write and publish blog posts regularly and represent our company by speaking at various industry conferences to enhance our visibility and engagement with the community.

What You'll Need:

  • You have a good understanding of Linux-based systems.

  • You have understanding of cloud-based infrastructure and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, Saas),

  • You can demonstrate experience in container/container orchestrator based intrusion analysis, detection development or malware analysis,

  • You are comfortable assessing cyber threat intelligence, open source intelligence or partner reporting,

  • You have a keen interest in the security research field (following subject matter expert blogs, building up static and dynamic analysis environment),

  • You have knowledge of programming and Scripting languages, in particular Python or Bash,

  • You have experience with large scale data analysis,

  • You are capable and comfortable communicating information to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders,

  • You have a deep drive to stop the bad guys,

  • Good problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Bonus Points Awarded For:

  • You have extensive experience in securing services operating on public cloud services (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud),

  • You have a good understanding of managed Kubernetes services (AKS, EKS, GKS),

  • Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)

  • Published research papers at conferences or through other mediums (blogs, articles)



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