Senior Threat Researcher, Rubrik Zero Labs

ABOUT THE TEAM

You will be part of a rapidly growing, new team at Rubrik–Rubrik Zero Labs. This team is laying the foundation for Rubrik’s threat focus and larger research in data security. Rubrik Zero Labs is on a mission to deliver actionable, vendor-agnostic insights to reduce data security risks. We advance data security outcomes based on real-world cyber threat assessments and cyber resiliency best practices. Our work focuses on three core pillars:

• Operationalize Evil Finding: Create proactive, actionable decision points from data-driven observations and trend analysis.
• Improve our Community: Act as a trusted advisor in the data security space through detailed research on security topics, models, and external publications.
• Reduce Risk: Work to eliminate threat options through research, public advocacy, partnership efforts, and technical changes to core data security technologies or tradecraft.

ABOUT THE JOB

You will be a core part of growing out an emerging, critical function impacting every aspect of Rubrik. Rubrik Zero Labs develops all aspects of Rubrik’s threat focus for guiding our senior leaders and products, directly finding evil affecting our customers, and driving thought leadership across the data security space. This high-visibility role will also require core team and process building aspects for both Rubrik Zero Labs and how our team integrates across Rubrik. Your tasks will require:

• Create public pieces in a range of formats like blogs, podcasts, presentations, etc
• Work across engineering, communications, product, design/UX in efforts to improve how Rubrik works
• Prioritize and conduct threat research benefiting Rubrik customers
• Fail fast–we expect failure to push us forward
• Contribute to thought leadership work by converting Rubrik Zero Labs evil finding to core content with multiple other teams
• Implement and refine detection/threat hunting efforts
• Build process and documentation for a wide range of efforts
• Implement relevant analytical models and contribute data security elements back to these same models
• Interact across Rubrik ranging from subject matter experts through the C-suite

ABOUT YOU

In your day-to-day work, you will leverage your past experience in delivering threat research in a range of formats, building new efforts and refining their execution, work across a range of technologies, and past ability to deliver the right threat context in the right format to the right decision maker. You will manage individual projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise. Rubrik Zero Labs will undergo significant growth in your time on this team and proven ability to shift and grow as a team will be crucial to our success.

Our diverse needs likely mean you won’t have every aspect we want–that’s ok! If you have most of these experiences and a history of learning/evolving, we want to hear from you.

• Ability to express complex technical and non-technical concepts verbally, graphically, and in writing for generalist and specialist audiences
• Familiar with the following areas and associated tools: intrusion operations, enterprise security controls, email analysis, log analysis, network flow and traffic analysis, malware triage, incident response processes, cyber attack lifecycles and models
• Proven team player with deep expertise cultivating relationships
• 5+ years of experience in an analytical or operational role (e.g., intelligence, threat analysis, security consulting)
• Experience with core cybersecurity concepts, risk management frameworks, common enterprise IT infrastructure components, operating system internals, and networking fundamentals
• Demonstrated history growing teams/workflows across multiple maturity levels
• Experience applying a range of threat intel/research to security outcomes
• Experience applying research methods and analytic techniques to independently address complex analytic problems