Malware Researcher/Detection Engineer

Summary

Join SentinelOne, a leader in cybersecurity, as a Malware Researcher/Detection Engineer. You will play a crucial role in detecting and preventing malware threats on Linux and cloud platforms. This position involves reverse engineering, developing detection methods, and integrating them into our AI-powered platform. You will collaborate with engineering teams, conduct security research, and contribute to enhancing the security of our global client base. The role offers opportunities for professional growth, including writing white papers and utilizing cutting-edge technologies. SentinelOne provides a flexible and supportive work environment with competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Experience with reverse engineering of x86/x64 binaries
• Experience in malware analysis (statically and dynamically)
• Understanding of Linux and Containers threat landscape (including but not limited to frameworks, MITRE IaaS)
• Proficient in Linux OS architecture and internals - understanding how core system components (Processes and Threads, Virtual Memory and more) work behind the scenes
• Experience with Python or Lua or other languages for scripting
• Solid familiarity and understanding of C++

Responsibilities

• Detect the newest malwares and exploits based on SentinelOne’s AI-powered Endpoint platform (EPP/EDR)
• Take end to end responsibility for behaviour based detection capabilities, starting from reversing the samples, designing new methods to detect or prevent those, and incorporating it into the product along with the engineering teams
• Develop and use internal research tools, PoCs and discover new ways to detect/prevent malicious techniques
• Enhance the security of countless of different Linux endpoints and cloud workloads platforms protected by our product
• Write white papers, blogs and articles
• Develop Detection
• Write tests to cover new detections
• Conduct low level security research
• Peer code reviews; Participate in team’s design reviews
• Learn new technologies in the Linux and Cloud workloads security domains
• Support customers with issues and requests within the team’s domain

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of existing Anti-Virus/Endpoint Protection SW internals
• Experience with eBPF
• Experience with Cloud Workloads (EKS, ECS, Fargate, etc.')
• Experience working on a production-grade product with a wide scale deployment

Benefits

• Salary from 4000 EUR/month
• Yearly % bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments
• Flexible working hours & Full remote within Slovakia; optional membership in major co-working spaces; in Czechia we also have offices in Prague or Brno
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of RSUs (restricted stock units) grant not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly
• Meal Allowance (maximum value of the employer’s contribution per day: €4.29)
• Wellbeing Allowance (€120/month)
• Flexible Time Off (on top of the standard 5 weeks of vacation)
• Flexible Paid Sick Days
• Fully Paid Short Term Sick/Short Term Nursing Leave
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off (e.g. 4 days in 2022)
• Pension insurance contribution
• Premium Life Insurance covered by S1
• Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters), Wellness Coach:Mind Body Sleep app company access (sessions, audiobooks, classes, private coaching etc.)
• High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear & on top of that additional WFH Allowance
• LinkedIn Learning platform for Hard/Soft skills Training, internal mentoring 'MentorOne' & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company
• On top of RSUs, you can benefit also from our attractive ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)
• Optional company events for those who like to meet outside of work too - mostly in Czechia expensed as business trip (sport, BBQ, charity etc.)
• DEI&B programs that promote employee resource groups like SentinelWIN (Women Inclusion Network), Blk@S1, Latinos@S1, Pan-Asian@S1, Out@S1 (LGBTQIA+) and Sentinels Who Served