Description:
WHO ARE WE?
Searchlight Cyber provides organizations with relevant and actionable dark web threat intelligence, to help them identify and prevent criminal activity.
Founded in 2017 with a mission to stop criminals acting with impunity on the dark web, we have been involved in some of the world’s largest dark web investigations and have the most comprehensive dataset based on proprietary techniques and ground-breaking academic research.
Today we help government and law enforcement, enterprises, and managed security services providers around the world to illuminate deep and dark web threats and prevent attacks.
ABOUT THE POSITION
By joining our growing engineering team at Assetnote as a Security Researcher, you will be responsible for the discovery, research and maintenance of security vulnerabilities affecting our customer base, that are discovered by our Continuous Security Platform.
In this role, you must both be proactive in discovering new vulnerabilities, but also reactive to adding vulnerabilities released on the internet for products our customers may be using. This role requires that you are confident with source code analysis, web application security and performing independent security research.
The security research and engineering work done in this role have a positive impact to the effectiveness of Assetnote's Continuous Security Platform. Developing and implementing these checks will make our platform more effective for all of our customers.
WHAT WILL I DO?
- Performing original security research through source code analysis to identify vulnerabilities in software that may be in use by our customers
- Keeping up with research, PoCs and exploits released on the internet, and creating checks for these for our platform
- Writing security checks in Golang/Python that can be applied across an entire attack surface for high-signal vulnerability discovery
- Identifying emerging threats and correlating them to which customers may be affected by them in order to proactively notify them about vulnerabilities
- Working as a part of a high-performing team on challenging problems
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Proven experience in reverse engineering,
- Experience in binary exploitation
- Experience with source code analysis tools, debuggers and similar tools
- Familiarity with a variety of software languages, such as C, C++, Python, JavaScript etc.
- Understanding of relevant protocols used in modern software
- Experience acting as a subject matter expert, discovering new vulnerabilities and creating a variety of reports and content for dissemination to various sources
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Job satisfaction; working for a company that is genuinely making people's lives better and helping to reduce the impact of internet based crime. You will have the opportunity to grow your career with the company in a very exciting industry.
On top of a generous salary in line with your experience, you’ll receive a great benefits package and a learning and development plan to help ensure your career always moves in the right direction.
We’re a committed team of professionals all from diverse backgrounds - software, data, security, sales and more. We all come together with a real passion for technology and a drive to make a difference - we’re committed to protecting society from threats and actors who use and abuse the dark web.
You’ll be challenged with interesting projects that will help you think outside the box and have plenty of opportunities to learn and practice new skills. You’ll be a key member of the team, directly contributing to our customer and supplier relationships and helping business goals. We believe in training & development, having fun and a great work life balance.
Your benefits package will include:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Entry into company pension scheme
- Private healthcare from Axa, including dental and vision coverage
- We offer both TechScheme and Cycle2Work
- Comprehensive training and support to develop your career, including a training budget
- A range of office perks, including free fresh fruit daily, a bean to cup coffee machine and more
- Regular team building and reward events
INTERVIEW PROCESS
- Screening Call with our Talent Manager
- Technical Task
- 2 stage interview process with line manager and senior management
- We’d love to meet you in person for an interview, but are happy for a video call too!
- Offer and onboarding