Job Description

At Check Point, we help organizations around the world stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. By combining advanced technology with industry-leading security research, we deliver protections against the latest attacks at global scale.

If you're excited by real-world malware, emerging threats, and solving complex security challenges, you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact while working alongside some of the industry's leading researchers and engineers.

• Analyzing malicious files and creating generic protections for Check Point products.
• Lead releasing high quality daily protections for our customers and constantly monitoring detections.
• Lead our response to high profile attacks, understand them and guide the creation of relevant protections.
• Lead our automation efforts and reduce manual protection work.
• Monitoring our wide sensors information and find leads for interesting cases of targeted attacks & campaigns.
• Running deep investigation in Check Point products and lead enhancements in security & UX.
• Publish marketing and technical blogs for interesting findings by the team.
• Present your work in different forums including stakeholders, strategic customers and security conferences.
• Automate daily processes in order to increase the team’s efficiency.

Qualifications

• At least 2-3 years of Hands-on experience in reverse engineering (static/dynamic malware analysis)
• Strong understanding of Linux internals
• Practical knowledge in writing detection rules (static/behavioural).
• Proficiency in coding and scripting - Python is required
• Broad knowledge of in-the-wild attacks, malware families, and current security trends.
• Proven experience in analyzing cyberattacks end-to-end.
• Ability to translate findings into actionable detection signatures and protection logic.
• Familiarity with common hacking tools and attacker techniques.
• Knowledge of advanced threat-hunting methodologies.
• Solid understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP(S), DNS, SMB, FTP).
• Experience writing technical blogs, reports, and analysis papers.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).