Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations. They are seeking a Senior Security Research Engineer to drive R&D efforts by transforming threat research into actionable intelligence for their New Scale Analytics Platform.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior technical contributor for Exabeam Security Research, helping shape direction for detection engineering, behavioral analytics, and threat research
- Lead research into emerging attacker tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs), and adversary behaviors across enterprise, cloud, identity, and SaaS environments
- Design, develop, validate, and maintain high-fidelity detections, behavioral models, and analytics for the Exabeam platform
- Act as a subject matter expert on the analytics engine, driving improvements to behavioral analytics, model quality, detection coverage, and accuracy
- Develop security content that leverages the full Exabeam platform, including behavioral analytics, UEBA, search, automation, investigation workflows, and detection engineering capabilities
- Continuously evaluate new attack techniques and validate detection efficacy through research, simulation, purple teaming, adversary emulation, and lab testing
- Perform hands-on threat research, malware analysis, incident analysis, detection tuning, and content validation where appropriate
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, AI, and Customer Success teams to translate emerging threats into product capabilities and customer value
- Contribute to technical thought leadership through blogs, conference presentations, webinars, whitepapers, and community engagement
- Apply AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve Security Research workflows, detection development, and research productivity
- Identify opportunities to improve researcher productivity through AI-assisted research, detection development, testing, documentation, and content generation
- Develop processes and guardrails for responsible use of AI in research workflows while maintaining detection quality and accuracy
- Partner with Exabeam AI teams to evaluate emerging AI capabilities and incorporate them into research operations
- Improve speed-to-market for new detections through automation, AI-assisted engineering, and repeatable development processes
- Mentor and guide Security Researchers and Detection Engineers through technical reviews, research collaboration, and knowledge sharing
- Help shape research priorities and technical execution plans in partnership with the Security Research Manager and cross-functional stakeholders
- Provide technical coaching and feedback to raise the quality, scalability, and consistency of research outputs and detection content
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning through influence rather than direct people management
- Balance strategic research initiatives with hands-on execution to ensure timely delivery of high-quality detections, analytics, and product improvements
- Coordinate technical work across Engineering, Product Management, Threat Intelligence, Customer Success, and AI teams to translate research into customer value
- Measure and communicate technical impact through meaningful metrics around detection coverage, quality, innovation, and delivery
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity with significant expertise in threat detection, security research, threat intelligence, detection engineering, incident response, or related disciplines
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, or guidance to highly technical engineering or security research teams without requiring direct people-management responsibility
- Deep understanding of modern attacker methodologies including MITRE ATT&CK, identity attacks, endpoint threats, cloud attacks, insider threats, and lateral movement techniques
- Demonstrated experience developing high-quality security detections, behavioral analytics, correlation rules, or detection content for enterprise security products
- Strong understanding of UEBA, SIEM, behavioral analytics, and detection engineering principles
- Experience working with large-scale security telemetry including endpoint, identity, cloud, authentication, network, SaaS, and infrastructure logs
- Hands-on experience writing production-quality code and automation using Python and related scripting languages
- Experience working with APIs, automation frameworks, and modern development workflows
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate detection quality, reduce false positives, and improve behavioral fidelity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical concepts to both executive and technical audiences
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional partners and contribute to technical strategy through expertise, collaboration, and clear communication
- Hands-on experience with the Exabeam platform and a deep understanding of the BEAM analytics engine
- Experience building behavioral models, machine learning features, or advanced detection logic
- Practical experience leveraging Generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted development to improve engineering productivity and research effectiveness
- Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Knowledge of identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Active Directory, and hybrid identity environments
- Experience with Elasticsearch, SQL, Splunk, Kusto, or similar search and analytics technologies
- Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and content validation pipelines
- Experience with malware analysis, reverse engineering, digital forensics, or incident response
- Previous experience contributing to open-source security projects, research publications, conference presentations, or industry working groups
Benefits
- Extensive medical, dental and vision coverage to meet your healthcare needs and employer Health Savings Account contribution to help pay for health expenses now or in the future
- Generous 401(k) employer match to help you save for your future
- Paid Time off including “take what you need” flex time, volunteer day of service, your birthday, parental leave, holidays and more
- Widespread learning center for career planning and skill development to grow your career
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