Sr. Security Researcher II (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, 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. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you. About the Role : CrowdStrike is looking for a self-starting, action-oriented, and highly motivated Senior Security Researcher to join our Counter Adversary Operations Team. This position will require the candidate to track and collect information related to Russian-language eCrime actors, tools, tradecraft, and techniques in a wide variety of environments, to include the deep and dark web and is instrumental in providing unique insight into finished Intelligence products used by CrowdStrike customers and stakeholders. The successful candidate will be an operational security (OPSEC)-savvy, detail-oriented problem solver, and have substantial experience driving concurrent projects, self-motivation and ability to execute assigned tasks to completion with minimal direction. Highly qualified candidates will be a subject matter expert on eCrime, especially Russian-language eCrime threat actors, have significant experience conducting advanced engagement and research pertaining to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime activity, possess a solid understanding of threat intelligence, have strong open source (OSINT) research skills, and be comfortable with internal and cross-team collaboration. What You'll Do : Collect unique, relevant actionable, and timely information to answer established standing and ad hoc requirements related to eCrime actors, especially Russian-language eCrime actors. Leverage advanced engagement skills and OSINT tradecraft to follow up on leads and identify eCrime threat actors and track them in various online communities. Identify current and emerging cyber threats and trends pertaining to eCrime threat actors, including technical information with a special focus around Russian-language eCrime actors. Create consistently clear, highly-contextualised internal reports of collected information in a way that enables robust analysis. Collaborate with teams producing analytical reports and threat estimates pertaining to eCrime topics, especially Russian language threat actors. Employ secure virtual operational tradecraft methods and practices.

Required: Advanced engagement skills with threat actors. Extensive experience conducting OSINT investigations using Russian-language skills. Experience in navigating a wide variety of cyber threat actor environments, to include social media, hidden services, and forums. In-depth familiarity with a wide variety of eCrime groups generally, with a specialty in Russian-language ones. Practical knowledge of technical terminology, tools, and tactics employed by eCrime actors, particularly those used by Russian-language eCrime actors. Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and identify