Malware Research Engineer
Malwarebytes
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Process daily threat-feeds, related to newly created malware and write detection rules for various technologies.
- Investigate and resolve customer related inquiries related to protection, performance, and usability.
- Conduct research and threat hunting for the latest cyber-web threats affecting our customers.
- Provide feedback on new projects and syntaxes/tools being developed that involve your daily work and suggest ideas how to handle different threat types.
- Support content creation efforts incl. threat descriptions, blogs, and presentations.
Requirements
- Highly developed sense of integrity and demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to treating and caring for customers.
- Creative thinking and problem solving, with a positive and motivated approach.
- Ability to setup and conduct research/analysis in an emulated/virtual environment, such as VMWare or Hyper-V.
- Ability to research & classify malicious domains and IPs.
- Experience with and understanding of malware research tools involved in static & dynamic analysis and core aspects of a threat research & response team.
- Basic understanding and experience using various operating systems, incl. Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
- Ability and passion to stay up to date with the latest malware threats and collaborate with other researchers, coordinators, as well as developers.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Wellness programs
- 401k and employer matching for (US Employees)
- Comprehensive Time Off policy
- An opportunity to do something great for yourself and the world! (Benefits and Perks subject to change by country/region)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
malware detection rulesthreat huntingmalware research toolsstatic analysisdynamic analysisresearch analysismalicious domain classificationIP classificationoperating systemscyber threats
Soft Skills
integritycustomer carecreative thinkingproblem solvingpositive attitudemotivationcollaborationcommunicationfeedback provisioncontent creation