Description
Tenable Research is seeking a Senior Security Researcher - Cloud Security to join our highly technical product research team working at the core of our cloud security platform.
In this role, you will define how vulnerabilities in cloud assets are understood, enriched, and remediated. You will design the model and system that keeps teams ahead of AI-generated vulnerabilities.
Your responsibilities include:
- Defining cloud vulnerability management by grounding findings in how exposure is created and what resolving it means for organizations
- Researching how the security context around a finding affects its real-world risk and what resolving it looks like
- Leading remediation research to define how vulnerabilities across cloud and code map to the fixes that resolve them
- Publishing and presenting research through technical blogs, reports, and leading industry conferences
Requirements:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in security research
- Familiarity with real-world vulnerability management
- Strong technical background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with application security tooling
- Highly curious, self-driven, and comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-evolving problem spaces
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Ideal candidates will have experience with:
- Exploit research, full-chain attack analysis, or CVE-to-fix resolution
- Leveraging AI and agentic workflows for security research and analysis
- Application security, secure code review, or supply chain security
- SBOM tooling, container scanning, or software composition analysis pipelines
- Published research, conference talks, or technical blog posts