Security Researcher Manager jobs in Israel

Description As Security Research Team Lead at Nagomi, you will lead the team turning security research and enterprise security data into actionable insights and product capabilities. You will combine people management with hands-on technical leadership, helping customers understand their exposure and get more value from their security tools. We’re looking for a leader with a strong background in cybersecurity research, deep understanding of enterprise security tools, and a data-driven approach to solving problems. You should be equally comfortable mentoring researchers, shaping a research roadmap, and joining customer calls to explain findings and understand real-world challenges. What You'll Do • Lead and Develop the Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of security researchers. Set clear goals, provide technical guidance and feedback, and build a culture of rigor, curiosity, and ownership. • Own the Research Roadmap: Define and prioritize research initiatives in partnership with product and engineering. Balance customer needs, emerging threats, and strategic opportunities, taking projects from initial investigation through production delivery. • Drive Security Tool Research: Lead deep research into enterprise security platforms, including EDR, SIEM, firewalls, IAM, and vulnerability management tools. Assess configurations, policies, coverage, and defensive capabilities to identify gaps and improve security effectiveness. • Engage Directly with Customers: Lead technical customer discussions, explain findings clearly, investigate complex questions, and turn feedback into research and product improvements. • Turn Data into Security Insights: Guide how the team collects, models, correlates, and validates security data. Translate fragmented telemetry and configuration data into reliable assessments, prioritized findings, and actionable recommendations. • Shape Integrations and Product Capabilities: Own the research requirements and security logic behind integrations, security control assessments, and exposure prioritization. Work closely with engineering to ensure research translates into accurate, scalable product features. • Set Research Quality Standards: Establish methods for validating findings, testing assumptions, and measuring accuracy. Ensure conclusions are supported by evidence and recommendations account for customer context and operational constraints. • Guide AI-Powered Research and Workflows: Shape the security knowledge, reasoning logic, and evaluation methods behind Nagomi’s AI-powered capabilities, ensuring outputs are accurate, explainable, and useful. • Partner Across Nagomi: Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and customer-facing teams to align priorities, resolve technical challenges, and deliver meaningful customer outcomes. Requirements • Leadership Experience: Proven experience managing security researchers or a closely related technical team, including mentoring, performance management, and project delivery. • Cybersecurity Research Expertise: 6+ years of relevant hands-on experience in cybersecurity research, security control assessment, detection engineering, exposure management, or related fields. • Deep Security Tool Knowledge: Strong understanding of enterprise security platforms, their APIs, configuration models, policies, and telemetry. Ability to evaluate what a tool can protect against, how it is deployed, and where gaps remain. • Data-Driven Research Skills: Experience working with complex security datasets, defining data models, and correlating information across sources. Comfortable using Python, SQL, or similar tools to investigate data, test hypotheses, and validate research at scale. • Technical Judgment: Ability to challenge assumptions, review research methods and results, and guide the team through ambiguous problems while staying close to the technical details. • Product and Delivery Mindset: A track record of turning research into practical capabilities, setting priorities, managing dependencies, and delivering projects end-to-end. • Customer-Facing Communication: Ability to lead technical customer calls, ask thoughtful questions, and explain complex findings to both security practitioners and non-specialist stakeholders. • Broad Security Foundations: Understanding of attacker techniques, enterprise environments, cloud and identity security, and how security controls work together to reduce risk. It’s nice if you have • Hands-on red teaming, penetration testing, adversary emulation, or attack-path analysis experience. • Experience building or evaluating AI-powered security capabilities and agentic workflows. • Experience with Automated Security Control Assessments (ASCA), exposure management, or security control validation. • Experience collaborating with data engineering or data science teams on security data pipelines and analytics. • Experience hiring and scaling a research team. • Published research, open-source contributions, CVEs, or conference presentations.

Description We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead to manage the Domain Experts covering reverse engineering, malware research, and vulnerability research. This role is dedicated to the quality of intent analysis for cybersecurity prompts that an AI system could not confidently classify as benign or malicious, across the domains of the team. You need to be a hands-on expert in your own field, with enough working knowledge of reverse engineering, malware research, and vulnerability research to judge prompts and guidelines that cross into the other team's domains. You also need to be independent, organized, and able to lead technical experts. What you'll do: • Lead and manage the Domain Experts of the team (Vulnerability Research & Reverse Engineering, Windows Malware Research, Linux/MacOS Malware Research, Android/iOS Security Research): priorities, workload, and performance • Route incoming rows to the team's domains and rebalance freelancer capacity inside the team as row volume shifts • Track team quality (agreement and disagreement rates, QA findings) and throughput, and report to the Group Manager • Resolve escalated edge cases and prompts that span several domains, and work with the other Tech Lead when a prompt crosses into their field • Keep the annotation guidelines consistent across the team's domains and propose updates • Annotate or review directly when needed to unblock the team Requirements • Minimum of 7 years of proven, hands-on experience in reverse engineering, malware research, or vulnerability research, with deep expertise in at least one of them • Working knowledge across all domains of the team, enough to assess and coach the Domain Experts in each • Solid working knowledge of the other team's fields: reverse engineering, malware research, and vulnerability research, including how malware behaves, how binaries are analyzed, and how exploits are built • At least 2 years of experience leading or mentoring technical specialists (team lead, tech lead, or senior reviewer) • Experience with quality processes such as QA sampling, calibration sessions, and quality metrics • Strong analytical judgment: able to infer a user's underlying goal from a short prompt and separate defensive, educational, and research use from attack preparation • Clear written and verbal communication in English Nice to have: • GIAC GREM, OSED, OSCP • Demonstrated online achievements, write-ups, or contributions on platforms such as HackTheBox, Pwn2Own, TryHackMe, Bug Bounty programs, or published security research. About Alice Alice is a trust, safety, and security company built for the AI era. We safeguard the communicative technologies people use to create, collaborate, and interact- whether with each other or with machines. In a world where AI has fundamentally changed the nature of risk, Alice provides end-to-end coverage across the entire AI lifecycle. We support frontier model labs, enterprises, and UGC platforms with a comprehensive suite of solutions: from model hardening evaluations and pre-deployment red-teaming to runtime guardrails and ongoing drift detection. Alice is widely considered a global leader in online safety and AI security. We have some of the most forward-thinking and passionate minds in the world working to safeguard over 3 billion users across the largest AI and tech platforms. If you're creative and driven to secure the future of AI, we want to hear from you!

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you. We're looking for a Manager to lead a security research team for detection and response across cloud environments. This is an opportunity to lead an exceptional group of researchers working on a startup-level product within the largest security company, helping revolutionize how organizations protect their Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments. Key Responsibilities • Manage a team of security researchers conducting research on attacks against cloud data , Kubernetes and containers. • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented security researchers focused on defending organizations as they transition from on-premises data centers to modern cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure. • Drive the strategy and execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques for detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks targeting hybrid and cloud-native environments. • Define and prioritize detection use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative analytic approaches combining runtime visibility and posture management across diverse platforms. • Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats in both legacy and cloud contexts. • Oversee simulation of real-world attacks and deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content. • Foster collaboration across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions. • Represent the team and share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications. Qualifications Required Qualifications • 2+ years in a leadership or management role, including mentoring researchers and setting research strategy. • 5+ years in security research with a proven track record of driving impactful projects. • Deep expertise in cloud-native security, with strong focus on Kubernetes, containers, and major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). • Experience developing or working with detection and response products, such as XDR, EDR, or cloud workload protection platforms. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex research findings and drive alignment across diverse teams. • Proficient in hands-on coding and scripting (e.g., Python). • Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and analytics (e.g., GCP BigQuery, Dataflow). Preferred Qualifications • Familiarity with Kubernetes threat modeling frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK for Containers). Our Commitment We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected]. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.