What are the responsibilities and job description for the Threat Intelligence Specialist position at X.com?
Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!
Threat Intelligence Specialist
Locations : San Jose or New York or Bastrop
Base Salary Range : $127,000 - $166,000
X's Threat Disruption team provides expert scaled investigative support into inauthentic accounts and behavior on the platform. Our objective is to increase the costs to bad actors for manipulating the platform and mitigate associated harm.
Responsibilities :
- Recognize, research, and analyze various threat actor groups / attack patterns, tactics, techniques and procedures.
- Use data analysis to develop profiles of bad actors on X, and complete scaled investigations into those bad actors.
- Conduct threat modeling to improve threat detection and mitigation.
- Build heuristic rules to detect and stop bad actors on X, and contribute to building other detection systems and Safety product features.
- Perform continuous research based on open source and internal tooling on specific threats, including threat actors and campaigns, to determine detection and enforcement gaps for X Rules and policies. This includes campaign tracking and trending evaluation.
- Investigate anomalies detected by other Safety or partner teams.
- Participate in Red / Blue team activities.
- Produce brief bulletins, assessments, or full-length profiles of actors for stakeholders delivered in a timely and contextual manner.
- Manage external and internal Threat Intelligence partnerships on behalf of X. This includes optimizing and managing data sources of threat intelligence information.
Qualifications :
Salary : $127,000 - $166,000
