Malware Reverse Engineer, Cloudforce One

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Cloudforce One is Cloudflare’s threat operations and research team, responsible for identifying and disrupting cyber threats ranging from sophisticated cyber criminal activity to nation-state sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs). Cloudforce One works in close partnership with external organizations and internal Cloudflare teams, continuously developing operational tradecraft and expanding ever-growing sources of threat intelligence to enable expedited threat hunting and remediation.

Cloudflare is seeking a talented Malware Reverse Engineer to join us in growing our Cloudforce One Organization, where you will be instrumental in building a proactive and threat intelligence-driven approach to protecting Cloudflare and its customers from sophisticated and ever-evolving global threat actors. This position requires an innovative, self-starting, and detail-oriented problem solver with a passion for analyzing, tracking, and triaging malicious software used by sophisticated cyber threats.

As a Cloudforce One Reverse Engineer, you will analyze malicious binaries with the goal of monitoring and disrupting cyber threat activity across multiple platforms, supporting both client requests and proactive internal research. You will serve an integral role in the discovery and analysis of cyber threat adversaries, working alongside detection engineers to detect attacks and threat researchers to track them.

Our ideal candidate will have 7+ years of previous experience reverse engineering malware samples and can write reliable code, preferably in Python or Golang. Top candidates will have extensive experience with hands-on static and dynamic analysis of common file formats on Windows, macOS, or UNIX-based platforms.

• Possess mid-level experience as a Malware Analyst able to reverse engineer various file formats and analyze complex malware samples.
• Reverse engineering experience with APT malware with an understanding of common infection vectors.
• Perform system analysis using best practice malware analytics methodologies on Windows, macOS, or UNIX/Linux platform.
• Understanding of source code, hex, binary, regular expression, data correlation, and analysis such as network flow and system logs.
• Practical malware analysis experience with static, dynamic, and automated malware analysis techniques.
• Knowledgeable of current malware techniques to evade detection and obstruct analysis.
• Experience with network protocol analysis and cryptography.
• Proficient in Python or Golang, capable of writing modular code that can be installed on a remote system.

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