About the Role:

Our CrowdStrike Malware Research Center Investigations Team is looking for a Threat Analyst who is both customer- and team-focused. This role will include both response and pro-active aspects. This role will be perfect for anyone who is just starting or considering a career involving reverse engineering and detection. The primary responsibility of this role will be to analyze malware and detections by investigating individual customer detection tickets. This team is focused on improving detection capability and efficiency through analysis of malware or other threat detections impacting our customer base. 

Bring your passion for helping internal partners resolve questions about our threat detections and our detection capability. Our goal for the Investigations team is to both help internal teams respond to customer-inquiries about threat detection and to provide information about the effects of our detections into the Malware Research Center - including detection efficacy and managing false positive detections.

This role will work most closely with internal teams such as Technical Account Managers, Falcon Complete, Security Response and the Malware Research Center. The role falls within our Data Science organization.

Remote U.S. role within a reasonable commuting distance to one of the following offices: Sunnyvale, CA; Irvine, CA; Austin, TX; Seattle, WA; Kirkland, WA; St. Louis, MO; Boston, MA; New York City, NY.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage a team of threat analysts

• Ensure product detections are performing to the company standard

• Management of problematic or false positive detections

• Address internal questions and concerns regarding customer threat detections

• Threat communications

Key Qualifications

Required:

• Exposure and understanding of different types and functionality of malware

• Malware operations experience

• Fundamental understanding of threat detection

• Knowledge of research/collection skills and analytical methods

• General understanding of threat/risk management and threat/risk assessment

• Ability to break down complex problems into workable components

• Escalations management

• Experience in a security operations center or similar environment responding to incidents

• Familiarity with tools used in cyber-intrusions

Education:

• BA/BS or MA/MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field

Location:

• Remote

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