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Team Introduction
The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cybersecurity and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile. Finally, we Drive Empowered & Risk-Informed Decision Making by providing our leaders with the necessary information to make agile decisions based on risk.

As a Threat Research Engineer, you will be a member of TikTok's Threat and Incident Management Team. responsible for threat detection, intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, Insider risk.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits relevant to our infrastructure and products.
- Research new methods and technologies to detect cyber threats, identify signals, and design data-driven approaches that use these signals to identify security threats and security breaches.
- Bring insight into all aspects of modern security issues to our products and rapidly developing prototypes for mitigations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional software engineering teams in developing products and services for delivering security assurance.
- Create and maintain use cases for intelligence monitoring, develop and deliver high-quality written products and oral intelligence briefings
- Identify and assess emerging risks, including analysis of deep and dark web data
- Apply cutting-edge AI technologies/Machine Learning (ML) to develop innovative AI solutions for security.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors.
- Passion and extremely self-motivated about security research, especially to discover real-world security problems, and addressing in-the-wild security threats. Deep understanding of vulnerability analysis and discovery as well as exploitation process and techniques.
- Research experience in attacks and mitigation methods.
- Research experience in two or more of the following: threat intelligence, IAM, key management systems, data security, application security, web application and browser security, security protocols, operating system internals and hardening (e.g., Windows, Linux, OS X, Android), network security, vulnerability management, penetration testing, or applied cryptographic concepts.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a technical field (or equivalent work experience in related field
- Professional certifications in Cybersecurity (OSCP, GCIH, GREM, GNFA or other relevant certifications)
- Experience in working and investigating incidents in Cloud environments (e.g. AWS, GCP)
- Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with OSINT tools such as Liferaft, Skopenow, Flashpoint, TLOxp, LexisNexus, etc
- Experience working with strategic, tactical, technical, and operational threat intelligence
- A strong background in data science, AI, machine learning, and deep learning. Experience in applying AI technology to security domain is highly preferred.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.