OSINT Researcher

Summary

Join SEON as an OSINT Researcher and be at the forefront of enhancing our fraud prevention capabilities by discovering and analyzing publicly accessible data sources. Conduct in-depth investigations on websites, platforms, and mobile applications to extract actionable intelligence, develop research prototypes in Python, and collaborate with engineers to create scalable solutions. This remote position, ideal for EU-based candidates, involves core OSINT research, reverse engineering and prototyping, and close collaboration with software engineers. You will contribute to improving SEON’s data-gathering platform and participate in technical design discussions. The role requires strong Python skills, web and mobile reverse engineering expertise, and familiarity with various OSINT tools and techniques.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Python 3.9+, including libraries for HTTP requests, asynchronous workflows, scraping, and automation
• Proven web and mobile reverse engineering skills, including traffic interception, request signature decoding, and anti-bot circumvention
• Familiarity with tools like Burp Suite, mitmproxy, Frida, or similar for debugging and traffic inspection
• Experience using cyber intelligence platforms and mining publicly available data (including open forums, leaks, or search engines)
• Knowledge of fraud tactics and a keen interest in understanding threat actors and their digital footprints
• A strong analytical mindset and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken)

Responsibilities

• Conduct open-source investigations across websites, platforms, and mobile applications to uncover relevant and verifiable data points
• Research hundreds of online sources and surface-level or deep web endpoints to identify patterns, behaviors, and structures for data extraction
• Stay current with OSINT tools, cyber intelligence practices, and threat actor tactics in the digital fraud landscape
• Collect, analyze, and organize intelligence from diverse public sources, including data breaches, forums, and leaked datasets
• Reverse engineer web and mobile applications to identify and extract accessible data points
• Intercept and analyze network traffic using tools such as Burp Suite, mitmproxy, or Frida to understand client-server interactions
• Build proof-of-concept scrapers and automation scripts in Python 3.9+ to validate the viability of OSINT data sources
• Use proxy infrastructure (residential, datacenter, rotating) to conduct distributed, anonymized research at scale
• Partner closely with software engineers to refine and productionize successful research findings into high-throughput data enrichment services
• Proactively contribute to improving SEON’s data-gathering platform by identifying new sources and more efficient data extraction methods
• Participate in technical design discussions related to crawler architecture and OSINT pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in structured OSINT investigations or cyber threat research
• Contributions to open-source OSINT tools, projects, or participation in relevant communities
• Background in penetration testing, bug bounty programs, or ethical hacking
• Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda, S3, etc.) and infrastructure automation
• Experience with automation frameworks and/or OSINT-specific platforms like Maltego, Spiderfoot, or Recon-ng

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours