Lead Security Researcher

Job Description

About the Role :

In this role, you will :

– Work with the broader Vulnerability Intelligence team to support day-to-day research operations, including coordinated vulnerability disclosures and rapid responses to major security incidents (Note: there is no on-call requirement for this role).

– Perform and publish root cause analyses of high-priority vulnerabilities and potential threats that highlight Rapid7s attacker-focused approach to vulnerability intelligence.

– Develop and publish new exploits and attack techniques, working alongside the Metasploit team to incorporate them into Metasploit Framework as needed. We believe strongly that defenders benefit from having democratic access to offensive security capabilities in order to understand attacks and test their controls!

– Conduct zero-day vulnerability research against popular enterprise technologies (e.g., network appliances, VPN gateways, CI/CD servers, file transfer and backup solutions, etc).

– Advise our security and threat detection engineers as they develop vulnerability checks, fingerprints, and detections; contextualize risk and explain attack patterns to cross-team technical stakeholders.

The skills and qualities youll bring include :

– Hands-on experience with common vulnerability classes and exploitation techniques (e.g., command injection, deserialization, etc). We don’t expect you to know everything, but you should be comfortable digging in to both learn and apply new or unfamiliar techniques when needed.

– Experience producing vulnerability root cause analyses (or other technical writing on vulnerabilities and exploits).

– Hands-on experience reverse engineering, patch diffing, and developing exploits.

– Prior experience developing Metasploit modules is a plus.

– Prior experience reverse engineering at least one common enterprise software development language (e.g. Java, .NET, C/C++) is also a plus.

– Familiarity with common security research tooling (e.g., IDA, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, Burpsuite, etc).

– An instinct for where and how to obtain or emulate vulnerable software. We cant perform hands-on analysis without targets – sometimes we have lab targets, sometimes there are AMIs available, and sometimes we have to get creative.

– Deep empathy for the challenges that security teams and global organizations face in today’s threat climate; willingness to listen, mentor, and collaborate across teams.

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