Security Researcher & Analyst

About Us

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware installing software or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available Locations : Austin TX

Overview

Initially this is a very tactical role focused on supporting Intel Teams day-to-day operations.

Intel team consumes approximately 35 different threat data feeds runs 5 different machine learning models and has data integrated into six different products in the Cloudflare portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Review domain miscategorizations
• Maintain Application classifications
• Review email miscategorizations
• Submit IOCs to data pipeline based on external reports
• Define automations and software requirements for support tooling
• Define processes and procedures to create 24x7 coverage of miscategorizations
• Continually evaluate the quality of threat data feeds work to maximize value from them evaluate new potential sources of data
• Research observed IoCs and network behavior patterns and label data
• Work with data scientists to identify security threats and create machine learning models
• Be a team SME and resource for data scientists building security models and application developers building security products
• Become a subject matter expert for internal teams consuming Intel team security and categorization data
• Become the owner for Intel Teams strategy for false positive controls

Learn and understand current processes

Research and plan potential software data science or machine learning projects to improve false positive and false negative rates

Research threats exploits and TTPs being defended against in products and work with engineers to create products that defend against them

Required Skills & Abilities

e.g. MITRE ATT&CK Framework Lockheed Killchain

DNS HTTP TCP / IP TLS public key encryption

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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Required Experience :

IC

Key Skills

Intelligence Community Experience,Python,Spss,Microsoft Word,R,Regression Analysis,Windows,Stata,Microsoft Powerpoint,Research Experience,Data Modeling,Writing Skills

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1