Security Researcher, Malware Triage (Remote) in Warwick

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward.

The CrowdStrike Intelligence Team is seeking a motivated malware reverse engineer with excellent technical skills to analyze malware and perform technical research to support customer requests, incident response cases, and other internal CrowdStrike teams. This is a highly technical position on a team within the Technical Analysis Cell (TAC), at the forefront of CrowdStrike's battles with nation state adversaries and criminal actors. The team is tasked with investigating and reverse engineering newly discovered, malicious artifacts and documenting analysis results as an intelligence report.

We respond quickly when needed and perform equally well at conducting detailed analysis. Communication and collaboration with other teams of CrowdStrike is highly important to facilitate this. As a distributed international team, we are looking for an energetic self-starter with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables while at the same time supporting and helping to improve upon our analysis workflow.

What You’ll Do

• Provide timely identification and summarization of threats to customers.
• Respond to technical questions by other teams within CrowdStrike.
• Continually improve our malware-analysis workflow.
• Extract configuration data from malware using in-house tools and manual analysis.
• Track relations between new threats and existing actors using in-house tools.
• Contribute to active mitigation efforts and support incident response engagements with malware analysis capabilities and technical expertise.
• Document threat evolutions and intelligence gaps for the broader Intelligence Team.

What You’ll Need

• Team player: someone who is eager to help, teach, and learn from others.
• Malware analysis experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to express complex technical and non-technical concepts.
• Ability to learn new analysis techniques quickly, especially when faced with less-common file types.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages, in particular Python.

Bonus Points

• In-depth knowledge of Windows and UNIX-based platforms.
• Experience in binary instrumentation.
• Experience identifying and classifying malicious tooling through development of signatures that can be used for tracking and hunting purposes.
• A background in intelligence is a plus.

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience in a related field.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge.
• Paid parental and adoption leaves.
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role.
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections.
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities.
• Great Place to Work Certified across the globe.

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed.