Security Researcher - Israel Remote

Are you excited about detecting and mitigating the latest cyber & fraud attacks?

Do you love researching and reverse-engineering real-world attacks?

Join our Adversarial Threat Research Team!

As a Researcher will be a member of Akamai's BMP research team. You'll be responsible for maintaining the defensive protections of Web Application & Bot Management security products.
Our products based on Akamai's unparalleled big data platform that stores Petabytes of data, from visibility into as much as 30% of all Internet traffic.

Shape internet security

As a Researcher, you will be responsible of monitoring the threat landscape, dissecting technological developments and providing intelligence reports regarding our adversaries. Your findings and recommendations will impact the short and long-term roadmap of our Bot Manager product, touching hundreds of customers and millions of clients every day.

As a Security Researcher, you will be responsible for:

• Reversing heavily obfuscated JavaScript, including VM-based obfuscation
• Identifying new standards and technologies that could impact our security products' accuracy.
• Identifying, collect and analyze adversaries/ tools/ bypasses from a wide range of sources.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge base of threats, vulnerabilities and attack vectors relevant to Akamai's BMP products.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a very strong ability to reverse JavaScript obfuscations.
• Have 2+ years of experience in web application security field.
• Have proven experience in web-related and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc).
• Have a deep understanding of the cybersecurity threat landscape, and the attacker's mindset.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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