# Research Systems Analyst

**Company:** [Censys](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/censys)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Yara, Malware Analysis, Cuckoo, Cape, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Synapse
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Build and operate scalable malware-analysis, threat-enrichment, and graph-intelligence systems that power security research and detection. The role requires 6+ years of security pipeline or threat-intelligence experience, strong Python or Go skills, and expertise in cloud and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain static and dynamic file analysis pipelines for processing artifacts at scale.
- Maintain and optimize YARA rule sets and tooling for rule testing, performance, and false-positive management.
- Operate and extend threat-indicator enrichment systems for real-time file metadata extraction, scanning, and enrichment.
- Build and expand threat-graph intelligence systems modeling relationships among indicators, malware, infrastructure, and actors.
- Design and maintain dynamic analysis, sandboxing, and detonation capabilities, including behavioral telemetry collection and safe execution environments.
- Build ingestion and normalization pipelines connecting internal scan data with external threat-intelligence feeds.
- Instrument pipelines for reliability and observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and SLAs.
- Partner with threat research and detection-engineering teams to translate analytical needs into scalable systems.
- Maintain secure handling and isolation practices for malicious samples and analysis environments.
- Document architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience building security data pipelines, detection-engineering systems, or threat-intelligence platforms.
- Experience with Synapse or other graph-based threat-intelligence platforms, including graph data modeling.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.
- Working knowledge of static and dynamic malware-analysis tooling and pipelines, including disassemblers, sandboxes, and debuggers.
- Experience with distributed data pipelines, message queues, and data stores.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for isolated execution environments.
- Experience designing and operating highly available, production-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Experience using LLM-based coding harnesses and agent-based development workflows.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Synapse, MISP, OpenCTI, or other threat-intelligence platforms.
- Familiarity with STIX/TAXII.
- Experience working with internet-wide scan data.
- Open-source contributions to security tooling, YARA rules, Strelka scanners, or Synapse modules.
- CI/CD experience applied to detection content.
- Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security and compliance frameworks for sensitive data.
- Hands-on experience authoring and managing YARA rules at scale.
- Experience with Strelka or comparable file-scanning frameworks such as Assemblyline or FAME.

## Compensation
- US high-cost-of-living locations: $190,000–$240,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
- Other US locations: $170,000–$220,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
- Compensation outside the US is based on location-specific market data.

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