Cybersecurity Threat Researcher

KnowBe4

Cybersecurity Threat Researcher analyzing trends in data sets to establish threat patterns. Investigating phishing attacks and assisting in various departments with Threat Intelligence.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeArlington • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be familiar with recent vulnerabilities in our space.
Investigate phishing emails and have an understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
Experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques
Enjoy sharing their knowledge and working with team members and external stakeholders.
Ability to communicate threat knowledge in a customer facing environment
Assist and enable various departments within KnowBe4 with Threat Intelligence
Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
Independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
Familiarity with Python automation preferred
Experience in customer-facing environments
Experience with triaging complex customer queries.
Experience with databases (SQL or MQL) preferable

Benefits

Comp & perks

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets
Employee referral bonuses
Adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Certification reimbursement
Certification completion bonuses
All in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysisMalware Analysisreverse engineeringthreat campaign trackingmalicious URL analysisphishing email analysisPython automationSQLMQL

Soft Skills

problem solvingknowledge sharingcommunicationteam collaborationindependent research