Threat Analyst

Halcyon's mission is to redefine what a security product can deliver. To support this, they are seeking a highly skilled Threat Analyst with deep technical expertise in malware reversing and detection engineering. This role is critical to advancing their detection and prevention capabilities, ensuring broad coverage of emerging threats while eliminating false positives. The right candidate will help keep their customers safe from the latest ransomware and malware families without impacting legitimate business operations. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing security events to detect, investigate, and escalate potential incidents. Correlate data across multiple sources to identify malicious activity and patterns, and triage and assess events to determine impact, contain incidents, and drive threat remediation. The analyst is also responsible for reverse engineering Windows PE files and other malicious binaries using static and dynamic techniques to uncover capabilities, persistence methods, and indicators of compromise (IOCs). Design, develop, and maintain internal tools to support threat triage, correlation, and research and collaborate closely with Engineering and Customer Success to improve product resilience and ensure smooth customer communication during security events.