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At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 220,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.\n\nWe know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.\nEnvision yourself at BarracudaBarracuda is looking for a highly technical security professional to join our team with a primary focus on identifying emerging threats, understanding evolving adversarial tradecraft, and translating that knowledge into actionable detection and defensive capabilities.\nThis role sits at the intersection of threat intelligence, detection engineering, offensive security, and adversary emulation. You will research emerging vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, intrusion techniques, and attacker behaviors to understand how modern threats are evolving and how those threats can be detected across Barracuda’s security ecosystem.\nYou will help answer a critical question for our customers and our organization:\n“If an attacker used this technique against us today, would we actually detect it?”\nYou will investigate how real-world adversaries operate, identify gaps in our ability to detect their behavior, and help develop the telemetry, analytics, detections, and defensive capabilities needed to identify and disrupt them.As a secondary responsibility, you will simulate adversary behavior to validate detection capabilities and expose gaps in defensive coverage. You will safely reproduce attacker TTPs, conduct controlled attack simulations, and measure whether security controls and detections perform as expected.\n\nYou will collaborate closely with Threat Intelligence, Security Operations (XDR), Incident Response, and Product teams to continuously improve Barracuda’s ability to detect and respond to evolving threats.\nBeing a team player, strong communicator, and forward-thinking security practitioner is essential for success in this role. You will be a technical leader within the team, helping mentor others and advance Barracuda’s capabilities in threat-informed detection and adversary validation.\nWhat You’ll Be Working OnEmerging Threat & Adversarial Tradecraft Research\nResearch emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, and adversary campaigns.\n\nAnalyze evolving attacker TTPs and identify new techniques that may impact Barracuda and its customers.\n\nTrack changes in adversary tradecraft and translate findings into actionable defensive requirements.\n\nInvestigate how novel attack techniques can be detected through available telemetry, security controls, and product capabilities.\n\nIdentify gaps in existing detection coverage and recommend improvements to close those gaps.\n\nAnalyze real-world attacks and incidents to identify new detection opportunities and defensive lessons.\n\nDevelop technical assessments of new threats, including attack paths, required telemetry, observable behaviors, and detection opportunities.\n\nCollaborate with Threat Intelligence and security teams to operationalize emerging threat intelligence.\n\nDetection Development & Validation\nDevelop and improve detection strategies for emerging and known adversary behaviors.\n\nTranslate attacker TTPs into detection logic, analytics, behavioral indicators, and detection requirements.\n\nEvaluate whether existing detections can reliably identify real-world adversary behavior.\n\nIdentify detection blind spots and determine what additional telemetry or analytics are required to close them.\n\nValidate detection effectiveness through controlled testing and adversary simulation.\n\nMeasure detection coverage against relevant threat actor behaviors and attack techniques.\n\nPartner with detection engineering and security operations teams to continuously improve detection quality and reduce missed threats.\n\nDevelop automation and tooling to improve the speed, scale, and repeatability of detection validation.\n\nAdversary Simulation & Attack Validation\nConduct controlled adversary simulations based on real-world threat intelligence and emerging attacker tradecraft.\n\nReproduce relevant attacker behaviors and TTPs to validate defensive capabilities.\n\nDevelop and maintain repeatable attack simulations and offensive security tooling.\n\nConduct Attack & Defend and Purple Team exercises to determine whether security controls can detect and respond to realistic attack scenarios.\n\nTest new and existing detections against adversary behaviors and identify missed TTPs.\n\nResearch and safely demonstrate novel attack techniques and exploitation paths in controlled environments.\n\nTranslate offensive findings into actionable improvements for detection, monitoring, prevention, and response capabilities.\n\nMaintain appropriate cloud-based laboratories and testing environments for adversary simulation and security research.\n\nCross-Functional Security Research\nCollaborate with Incident Response teams to understand real-world attack activity and incorporate lessons learned into detection and validation programs.\n\nPartner with Security Operations to improve detection fidelity and operational response.\n\nWork with Product and Engineering teams to identify opportunities to improve security visibility and defensive capabilities.\n\nSupport the development of security research, threat reports, technical assessments, and internal briefings.\n\nCommunicate complex technical findings, attack paths, detection gaps, and recommended mitigations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nWork collaboratively and independently on unique or special assignments that require specialized security knowledge and experience.\n\nMentor other security professionals and contribute to the team’s technical growth and capabilities.\n\nWhat You Bring to the Role\n5+ years of hands-on experience in offensive security, threat research, detection engineering, threat intelligence, incident response, or a closely related discipline.\n\nStrong understanding of modern attacker tradecraft and the ability to analyze how real-world adversaries operate.\n\nDemonstrated experience researching vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, or emerging attack techniques.\n\nExperience translating adversary behaviors and TTPs into detection opportunities or defensive requirements.\n\nHands-on experience with adversary emulation, red teaming, penetration testing, or attack simulation.\n\nExperience developing or validating detections using SIEM, EDR, XDR, network, cloud, identity, or other security telemetry.\n\nStrong understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and how to map adversary behavior to observable activity and defensive coverage.\n\nAbility to analyze complex attack chains and determine where meaningful detection and prevention opportunities exist.\n\nStrong scripting or programming skills in languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.\n\nHands-on experience with Windows, Unix, and Linux operating systems.\n\nUnderstanding of network protocols and enterprise security architecture.\n\nExperience working with cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.\n\nAbility to independently research unfamiliar technologies, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques and quickly develop a working technical understanding.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical attack behavior and security risk clearly.\n\nHighly Valued Experience\nExperience building adversary emulation tooling or automated attack simulations.\n\nExperience developing detection analytics, correlation rules, behavioral detections, or detection-as-code.\n\nExperience with EDR/XDR, SIEM, cloud security, identity security, or network detection technologies.\n\nExperience analyzing public vulnerability disclosures and determining practical exploitability and detection opportunities.\n\nExperience conducting Purple Team or Attack & Defend exercises.\n\nExperience measuring detection coverage and identifying missed adversary TTPs.\n\nExperience with threat hunting and hypothesis-driven investigations.\n\nExperience researching novel exploitation techniques or emerging attacker tradecraft.\n\nExperience contributing to open-source security research, vulnerability research, or offensive security tooling.\n\nRelevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSCE, GXPN, GCIA, GCIH, CEH, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nSuccess in This Role\nSuccess in this role means Barracuda is increasingly able tosee attackers sooner and understand new threats before they become widespread incidents.\nYou will help the organization:\nIdentify emerging threats and adversarial techniques before they become operationally significant.\n\nConvert threat intelligence into meaningful detection opportunities.\n\nDiscover detection blind spots before attackers exploit them.\n\nContinuously validate that detections work against realistic adversary behavior.\n\nImprove visibility into customer-relevant attack paths and TTPs.\n\nIncrease measurable detection coverage against relevant threats.\n\nStrengthen the feedback loop between threat intelligence, offensive security, detection engineering, security operations, incident response, and product teams.\n\nThe goal is not simply to simulate attacks.The goal is to understand how attackers are evolving, determine how we can detect them, and then prove that our defenses actually work.\nWhat you’ll get from usA team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda.\n- High-quality health benefits \n- Retirement Plan with employer match - Career-growth opportunities- Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits \n- Volunteer opportunitiesThe anticipated salary range for this role is $105,000 to $140,000 USD. Actual compensation offered will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, and qualifications as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, the budget for the position, and applicable employment laws.At Barracuda, we believe in fair and equitable compensation practices that reflect both market realities and the unique circumstances of each geographical location. We recognize that cost-of-living disparities, market conditions, and other factors can significantly impact compensation expectations in different regions. The compensation range provided in this job description is for illustrative purposes only and may not reflect the actual compensation offers for the position in your location. 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