Security Engineer, Investigations - i3 Responsibilities:
- Engage cross-functionally with other teams to develop shared taxonomy, implement effective strategies to prevent and disrupt abuse at scale and represent i3 across the problem space.
- Assist in the development of the team’s long-term strategy to improve tactics, discoverability of threats, and enhance investigative efficiencies.
- Proactively hunt for threats and undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open-source intelligence, and third party private intelligence.
- Investigate complex cases to understand how abuse is occurring and implement enforcement strategies to mitigate and/or detect harm.
- Identify areas to automate investigative tooling and tradecraft
- work through others to ensure successful implementation beyond the immediate team.
- Analyze and interpret large datasets to advance investigations, quantify trends or support findings.
- Address sensitive content issues, including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other objectionable material.
- This role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other potential objectionable material, i.e. child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, and other content which may be considered offensive or disturbing.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years of work experience in cyber security, private sector security investigations and intelligence, government, and/or intelligence.
- 5+ years of experience working with Python, PHP or similar scripting languages.
- 2+ years experience as technical lead or team lead in an adversarial and/or investigative space with experience driving team strategic direction.
- Proven experience conducting large scale data analysis and utilizing big data tools such as Maltego, Palantir, Tableau, etc.
- Track record of proficient communication and presenting technical findings.
- Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats.
- Experience prioritizing and executing with minimal direction or oversight.
- Experience in fast-paced environments where priorities shift and change.
- A combination of investigative skills and engineering skills.
- Experience working with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working or managing projects that have enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross functional stakeholders.
- Subject matter expertise with child safety or human exploitation.
- Familiarity with sophisticated cyber threats.
- BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field.
- Experience leading and empowering teammates.
- Experience contributing to the security community (open source, academic research, industry research, blogs, presentations, etc.).