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Director, Security Research

Sysdig · Flexible - USA

Director, Security Research is open at Sysdig in Flexible - USA (remote). The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $249K. Posted on Sep 9, 2026, and still on Sysdig’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

You will lead the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT). The department has two halves, and you own both. Adversary research is hypothesis-driven and sets its own agenda. Detection engineering is demand-driven and ships the detection content our customers and the Falco community run in production. We are hiring for AI security research specifically, not threat research generally, and we mean that in both directions. One…

The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Sysdig’s careers page.

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