Manager, Threat Research
- Crowdstrike
- 12 - 17 years
- Pune
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
- With a challenging role comes the requirement for a skilled manager with a background in threat research and reverse engineering.
- Leading a team of threat researchers requires solid people managing skills for helping grow the team and supporting them in being successful in the organization.
- Additionally, the team s manager must have a solid understanding of the technical requirements of the positions reporting to them in order to provide proper guidance and help grow the team s technical skills.
What You ll Need:
- The technical Manager position in CrowdStrike is not defined as a progression from an individual contributor. It is a unique career path focusing on excellence in supporting the business through scaling out their technical expertise while also focusing on supporting a team of candidates from new college hires to senior engineers.
- While the primary focus is team leadership and mentorship, the role requires periodic hands-on technical contribution during critical phases, proof-of-concept development, and when mentoring team members through complex analysis challenges.
- Solid interpersonal skills are a must, along with a strong sense of empathy, to help guide employees through understanding where they are in their career and technical path.
- A proven background in advanced reverse engineering on file-based threats is required.
- A good working knowledge of malware based automation workflows and techniques is required.
- Demonstrated experience building scalable automation pipelines for malware analysis, including integration with sandbox environments, YARA rule generation, and threat intelligence platforms.
- The Threat Research team is supported by an engineering team, but proof of concept automation is produced by researchers. Showing competence handing off research to engineering to produce results is required.
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or comparable field required.
- 12+ years experience in the threat research field with a focus on malware analysis required. Prior people management experience leading technical teams is required.
- Strong interpersonal communications skills required, with the ability to demonstrate leadership and team building expertise required.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Detection teams to translate research findings into production capabilities.
Bonus Points:
- Experience leveraging Generative AI and Large Language Models for threat research automation workflows, including malware analysis, report generation, and threat intelligence synthesis
- Proven ability to design and implement AI-powered automation solutions that enhance team productivity and scale threat research capabilities
- Understanding of prompt engineering, AI model integration, and the application of GenAI tools in cybersecurity contexts
- Additional reverse engineering around file-less threats, exploits, and other attack techniques are desirable
Job Classification
Industry: Hardware & NetworkingFunctional Area / Department: Research & DevelopmentRole Category: Pharmaceutical & BiotechnologyRole: Research ScientistEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: CrowdstrikeLocation(s): Pune+ View Contact
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