Senior Security Research Engineer

Description:

As a Security Research Engineer at Mimecast, you will be a pivotal technical expert dedicated to researching, analyzing, and developing detections for both malware and phishing threats. Your work will involve dissecting real-world file and web threats, building and optimizing detection signatures, and driving improvements to our advanced detection systems. This role combines in-depth threat investigation with a focus on enhancing our capabilities to block evolving attacks and provide actionable insights to our customers and internal teams.

What You’ll Bring
 

• Deep technical proficiency in malware and phishing analysis, including hands-on experience with real-world threats.
• Strong experience writing and tuning detection signatures (Yara, ClamAV, or similar).
• Advanced scripting and automation skills (Python required; additional scripting languages a plus).\
• Experience with static, dynamic or behavioural analysis of malicious files and URLs.
• Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, URL manipulation).
• Proficiency in analysing large data sets and extracting actionable insights.
• Experience setting up and using virtualization or sandboxing technologies for threat analysis is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote, global team.
• Minimum of 5 years of technical experience in cybersecurity, malware analysis, detection engineering, or a related field.