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Security Researcher – Bot Detection, Adversarial Research
Location
Worldwide
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Security Researcher – Bot Detection, Adversarial Research
Brightidea
• Conducting in-depth research on tools or services that prevent the free collection of public web data. • Building and improving HTTP client solutions to guarantee the success of Bright's Data collection efforts. • Identifying new standards and technologies that could impact our data collection capabilities. • Reverse engineering adversary solutions to prevent fingerprinting solutions from stopping us. • There’s much more…
Job Requirements
- 5 years’ experience as an R&D developer / researcher / tester
- A deep understanding of HTTP & TLS protocols
- Experience with at least 2 of the following:
- Programming experience in JavaScript /TypeScript / Python / C++
- Penetration testing experience or offensive security certificates (OSCP, OSEP etc.)
- Professional security research experience (such as web vulnerabilities, mobiles apps etc.)
- Reverse engineering skills (JS deobfuscation or binaries reversing) / malware analysis
- Anti-bot development or other similar products, such as WAF, Anti-Virus development (malware emulation etc.), DDoS prevention etc.
- Fluent English
- Experience working at an anti-bot or web security company – a major advantage.
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