# Director, Security Research at Sysdig

- Company: Sysdig
- What the company does: Backed by Accel and Insight.
- Company website: http://www.sysdig.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Flexible - USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/sysdig/a48eacc4-cc0f-47fe-9f2b-b7dd5b9b3e9b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sysdig-director-security-research/

## About the role

You will lead the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT). The department has two halves, and you own both. Adversary research is hypothesis-driven and sets its own agenda. Detection engineering is demand-driven and ships the detection content our customers and the Falco community run in production.

## What they're looking for

- Lead a small team of researchers and engineers, hands-on. Set their technical direction, expand what each can cover, and stay close enough to the work to be credible with the people doing it
- Own the detection content that ships. The managed ruleset, cloud and identity detections, and the quality of all of it. Rule quality is a number this team moves, not a claim it makes
- Own the detection platform. The toolchain, the attack reproduction environments, behavior-based detection, and adversary-deception telemetry. Build in-house reproduction for every detection family we ship
- Partner with Marketing to turn research into content and campaigns that go beyond just the technical write-up
- Partner with Product Engineering. Sit with Product on where detection capability goes next, and tell them how an attacker would defeat what they are about to build

Tags: CISO Security & Compliance