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Staff Cloud Security Researcher

SentinelOne· Engineering / Security
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Hybrid (Global)€4.5k/mo + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Staff Cloud Workload Security Researcher focusing on cloud attack path analysis, evasion research, and detection strategydevelopment across Windows, Linux, and macOS within SentinelOne’s threat defense platform.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively look for the newest and most sophisticated attack techniques, deeply research and understand their internals, and emulate these attacks to assess and improve our detection engines.
  • Conduct comprehensive analysis of potential attack paths within diverse systems and networks in cloud environments.
  • Identify and prioritize potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could be exploited by cyber adversaries in cloud platforms.
  • Build tools to support detection assessments, create proofs of concept for the newest techniques, and contribute to the design of innovative detection strategies.
  • Work closely with the threat intelligence team and engineering detection teams to provide guidance and highlight gaps in detection and visibility capabilities.

Qualifications

  • 4 or more years of experience in red teaming, security research, or offensive research, with a deep understanding of OS internals (Windows/Linux).
  • Experience in cloud attack path analysis, vulnerability assessment, and threat modeling.
  • Familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, cloud architecture, and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure).
  • In-depth understanding of the cloud ecosystem, security principles, services, configurations, best practices, and relevant frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience coding in Python and C/C++.
  • Understanding of existing EDR internals.
  • Experience leveraging agentic AI workflows for detection engineering tasks (reverse engineering, code auditing, signature writing).
  • A proven track record of conference speaking at security conferences or publications is an advantage.
  • Experience writing detection signatures or heuristics is an advantage.

Skills

Required:Cloud attack path analysisCloud providersOS internalsProgrammingCommunication
Nice to have:EDR internalsAI workflowsPublic speaking / publications

Benefits

  • Salary starting from 4500 EUR/month
  • Annual bonus based on company performance, paid in two installments
  • Equity & Rewards: RSUs, ESPP, Performance-based bonus
  • Time Off & Wellbeing: Flexible time off, 5 weeks PTO, paid wellness days, short-term sick/nursing leave, gender-neutral parental leave
  • Insurance & Financial Security: Life and disability insurance, pension insurance contribution, global travel medical insurance, EAP
  • Work Perks & Flexibility: Global home office allowance, meal allowance
  • Wellness & Lifestyle: Wellbeing allowance, MultiSport, Wellness Coach app
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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