Principal Cloud Security Researcher (Remote)

Role overview Set the research direction for cloud threat detection and protection, spanning cloud control planes, identity, workloads, and Kubernetes across major cloud platforms. This senior individual contributor role combines original offensive research with technical leadership, shaping how attack findings become detection coverage, posture checks, and automated remediation.

Responsibilities - Choose research priorities and define the technical vision for cloud threat content. - Investigate attack techniques, privilege escalation, credential access, cross-account abuse, and weaknesses in identity trust. - Analyze how attackers combine misconfigurations, permissions, and exposures into viable attack paths, then translate findings into protective coverage. - Guide the design of automated red-team agents, including their scenarios, attack-path validation, and scoring. - Turn research and threat intelligence into detection requirements using cloud audit, control-plane, identity, and runtime signals. - Help connect offensive research, detection and response, and automated preventive controls into a coordinated system.

Benefits and work setup - The role is described as remote. - The listing mentions wellness programs, paid leave, professional development, and employee communities.