Lead Threat Research Engineer

7 days ago


Singapore TikTok Full time

Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security 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. In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships.

As a Lead Threat Research Engineer, you will be a member of TikTok’s Threat and Incident Management Team, responsible for leading threat detection research for emerging threats and vulnerabilities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the research of 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.
- Drive and create new detections/rules/signatures for vulnerabilities and threats, build bridges between teams
- Monitor and analyze emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits relevant to our infrastructure and products.
- 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
- Mentor engineers to plan and conduct threat research

**Qualifications**:
Minimum Qualifications
- 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.
- Deep domain knowledge about AI technologies and/or information security.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in working and investigating incidents in Cloud environments (e.g. AWS, GCP)
- Experience working with strategic, tactical, technical, and operational threat intelligence

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors.
- Professional certifications in Cybersecurity (OSCP, GCIH, GREM, GNFA or other relevant certifications)
- Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with OSINT tools such as Liferaft, Skopenow, Flashpoint, TLOxp, LexisNexus, etc

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.



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