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Sr Security Researcher
Company | F5 |
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Location | Billerica, MA, USA |
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Salary | $128000 – $192000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- At least 2 year of experience in analyzing real web attacks or web exploitation, with a strong preference for more extensive experience.
- Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals, the HTTP protocol, web servers, and the inner workings of web applications is essential.
- Experience in tracking emerging web vulnerabilities in real-time.
- Experience in building research infrastructure and Python-based tools.
- Experience with creating and comprehending Regular Expressions for detailed pattern matching and security-related data analysis.
- In-depth knowledge of security principles, theories, and recognized attack vectors.
Responsibilities
- Researching web frameworks and servers to identify and understand emerging threats.
- Examining and replicating newly disclosed web application vulnerabilities.
- Focusing on WAF (Web Application Firewall) evasion techniques to preemptively bypass our defenses before hackers can.
- Creating innovative proof of concept solutions for advanced threats and continuously refining attack signatures, all in collaboration with development teams to enhance the WAF product using our research findings.
- Gathering web security intelligence from blogs, forums, conferences, and academic papers.
- Building tools and infrastructure for analyzing attacks.
- Composing and distributing insights through blogs, reports, and presenting at security conventions.
- Periodically performing security efficacy assessments on a variety of products, including WAFs, API security solutions, application security scanners, and machine learning models, to verify and improve their defense capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in creating attack signatures, such as with tools like SNORT.
- Analyzing binary malware and malicious scripts.
- Knowledge in web development (front and back end).