Threat Researcher - Seed-Funded - Austin PREF, Remote…maybe

Shrunken Heads is working with an Seed-stage Cybersecurity startup based in Austin, TX to hire several critical members for their core team.

What You’ll Do:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining systems for browser threat detection and response.

• Collaborating with the CTO to lead the development and implementation of scalable detection and analysis methods

• Analyzing large data sets, identifying threats, and designing additional detection capabilities

• Communicating technical information to non-technical stakeholders, such as the detection engineering roadmap and progress updates

Who You Are:

• Have experience in Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Data Science, OR similarly related background with fast-paced company

• Combined Technical Knowledge and Security-domain specific knowledge, passionate about the adversarial nature of security

  • May ask for contributions to code repositories, projects, reports, articles or documentation during the process

• Experience with modern Detection Engineering tools (SIEM, SOAR, Logging, and other “analytics” platforms)

• Experience with web scraping, ETL pipelines, script building, security automations, DevOps, or traditional software engineering

• Ability to own projects from end-to-end

Benefits:

• Compensation: 100-120K salary (+/- DOE) + stock options

• Hybrid in Austin (but exceptional remote candidates should still apply!)

• Health, Dental, Vision,

• Unlimited PTO — 2 weeks “minimum” encouraged!