Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations. High-integrity data ingestion, powerful analytics, and workflow automation power the industry’s most advanced self-managed and cloud-native security operations platform for threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). With a history of leadership in SIEM and UEBA, and a legacy rooted in AI, Exabeam empowers global security teams to combat cyberthreats, mitigate risk, and streamline security operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com .
We are looking for a Senior Security Research Engineer who will help drive Exabeam’s R&D efforts by distilling threat research, attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures into actionable intelligence for our New Scale Analytics Platform. This critical role offers the opportunity to join one of the top security operations and analytics providers and contribute to a team whose work continues to have a significant impact on Exabeam’s growth.
Exabeam is redefining how security operations teams detect, investigate, and respond to modern threats through behavioral analytics, AI, and intelligent automation.
Reporting to the Security Research Manager, this is a senior individual contributor role focused on hands-on technical leadership, deep threat research, detection engineering, behavioral analytics, and cross-functional influence. You will remain an active practitioner while helping set technical direction, mentor peers, and advance Exabeam’s detection capabilities.
The ideal candidate is equally comfortable reverse engineering attacker tradecraft, designing scalable detection logic, guiding complex technical decisions, mentoring researchers and engineers, and leveraging AI technologies to accelerate research, content development, and product innovation.
Serve as a senior technical contributor for Exabeam Security Research, helping shape direction for detection engineering, behavioral analytics, and threat research.
Lead research into emerging attacker tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs), and adversary behaviors across enterprise, cloud, identity, and SaaS environments.
Design, develop, validate, and maintain high-fidelity detections, behavioral models, and analytics for the Exabeam platform.
Act as a subject matter expert on the analytics engine, driving improvements to behavioral analytics, model quality, detection coverage, and accuracy.
Develop security content that leverages the full Exabeam platform, including behavioral analytics, UEBA, search, automation, investigation workflows, and detection engineering capabilities.
Continuously evaluate new attack techniques and validate detection efficacy through research, simulation, purple teaming, adversary emulation, and lab testing.
Perform hands-on threat research, malware analysis, incident analysis, detection tuning, and content validation where appropriate.
Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, AI, and Customer Success teams to translate emerging threats into product capabilities and customer value.
Contribute to technical thought leadership through blogs, conference presentations, webinars, whitepapers, and community engagement.
AI & Detection Innovation
Exabeam Total Rewards offers you:
(Subject to applicate eligibility requirements)
Paid Time off including “take what you need” flex time, volunteer day of service, your birthday, parental leave, holidays and more
Salary:
The annual starting salary for this position is between $162,000-$172,000 annually depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
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