Threat Researcher

TL;DR

Threat Researcher: Investigating emerging cyber threats and attacker techniques across web and email ecosystems with an accent on uncovering real-world malicious activity and generating new insights. Focus on reverse-engineering malicious services and analyzing large-scale datasets to build actionable detections and product protections.

Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel

Company

hirify.global is redefining consumer cybersecurity for the modern internet, protecting millions of people daily from evolving threats.

What you will do

• Investigate end-to-end threat leads including phishing, scams, malvertising, and social-engineering campaigns.
• Build and maintain hirify.global’s threat knowledgebase, tracking trends and discovering new techniques.
• Collaborate with security analysts, backend engineers, and product teams to translate research into protections.
• Utilize internal intelligence, OSINT, network tools, and custom automation to uncover attacker infrastructure.
• Reverse-engineer malicious services, scripts, and payloads to understand functionality and attack flow.
• Analyze emails, raw headers, SMTP metadata, and propagation patterns to connect related threat components.
• Query, process, and analyze large-scale datasets using BigQuery, SQL, and pandas to identify patterns and validate hypotheses.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in security research, threat intelligence, OSINT investigations, or equivalent.
• Strong familiarity with browsers, DOM, JavaScript, and DevTools for analyzing malicious behavior.
• Hands-on experience writing scripts or tools (Python/JavaScript) for automation, data parsing, or intel collection.
• Understanding of network fundamentals: DNS, WHOIS, HTTP/S flows, redirects, and IP ranges.
• Curiosity or experience in email threat analysis: SMTP headers, MIME structure, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and phishing techniques.
• Comfortable using tools like Burp Suite, URLScan, VirusTotal, and Shodan.
• Experience analyzing datasets using SQL, BigQuery, or pandas, with the ability to spot trends and anomalies.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture rooted in transparency, feedback, and collaboration with shared wins, team dinners, and company trips.
• High level of autonomy in a fast-paced environment with immediate product and user impact.
• Opportunity to grow at lightning speed and shape the next frontier of online safety.
• Build internal research tools and analysis platforms.
• Work with a team protecting over 1 million users.