Senior Information Security Researcher

Who We Are

Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber threats. We’re a cyber security company who protects, supports and empowers organizations to make better security decisions so they can focus on their mission without fear of cyber threats.

The combination of our market-defining technology and expertise prevents breaches every day and sets a new standard for partnership in the industry. We’re united in our commitment to customers and grounded in our values, which earned us a place on the Forbes Best Start-up Employers 2022 list. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk.

What We Believe In

- Do what’s right for the customer

- Be kind and authentic

- Deliver great quality

- Be relentless

Challenges You Will Solve

As a leader on our Community team, your mission is to partner closely with security and engineering teams at Red Canary and leverage their expertise, research, and work to create content (e.g., blogs, white papers, conference talks, videos, webinars, etc.) that inform and educate the broader information security community. You will also work in partnership with Red Canary’s marketing organization to support brand development, lead generation, and sales enablement efforts by helping them leverage the educational and research content our team produces.

You’ll create, review, and edit content in collaboration with other contributors and editors, including our content and social media teams. This includes partnering within and across teams to ensure technical accuracy, quality, readability, and consistency in everything that we publish. 

In doing the above, you directly contribute to Red Canary’s growth while continuing to improve the quality and quantity of community resources we produce.

What You'll Do

• Author or create resources in collaboration with internal teams and external contributors
• Lead projects focused on creation of educational or research resources in a variety of mediums, including text, talks, and videos
• Specialize and focus across multiple subject matter areas (e.g., intelligence, research, threat hunting, incident response, and more)
• Help to refine, guide, and provide feedback related to resources during ideation, production, or post-publication
• Help technical practitioners become better writers, speakers, and storytellers
• Track and report team performance indicators and success metrics as needed
• Speak as a subject matter expert at conferences

What You'll Bring

• You are an exceptional written communicator and are equally adept at writing about technical topics and abstract concepts in a variety of styles. 
• You are a creative and curious person who is a good listener and loves to learn.
• You have a good working understanding of security operations, including threat intelligence, detection engineering, threat research, and incident handling/response. You are eager to expand your knowledge and expertise in this domain by embedding with the various highly operational teams that comprise Red Canary’s security organization.
• You are an avid reader and consumer of infosec content ranging from social media and conference talks to books on relevant topics.
• You actively contribute to the information security industry and/or community through writing, speaking, or creating other forms of educational, intelligence, or technical content.
• You enjoy teaching and learning, and doing both while helping Red Canary customers and the broader infosec community is your idea of an ideal job and career. 

The targeted base salary for this role is $114,400 - $154,400 per year. This role is also eligible for participation in the company's bonus program, and eligible for a grant of stock options, subject to the approval of the company's board of directors. The application deadline is January 31, 2025.

Benefit Highlights:

- 100% Paid Premiums- Red Canary pays 100% of your medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents. No waiting period.

- Fertility Benefits- All new hires are eligible for benefits as of their first day.

- Flexible Time Off- Take the vacation and sick time you need.

- Health Reimbursement Account- Fully funded by Red Canary to offset out of pocket expenses such as deductibles, coinsurance and copays.

- Flexible Work Environment- With 60% remote workforce, Canaries can work from virtually almost anywhere.

- Paid Parental Leave- Full base pay to bond/care for your new child.

Why Red Canary?

Red Canary is where people embody our mission to improve security outcomes for all. People work hard to maintain a culture that encourages authenticity in order to do your best work. Our people are driven and committed to finding the best security outcomes, delivering real and actionable answers, and being transparent along the way. 

At Red Canary, we offer a very rich benefits program to our full-time team members so they can focus on their families and improving our customers’ security. For a full list of benefits, please review our Benefits Summary:

https://resource.redcanary.com/rs/003-YRU-314/images/RedCanary_2025BenefitsSummary.pdf?version=0

Individuals seeking employment at Red Canary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.