Posted on:August 21, 2026

Senior Staff Security Researcher at Reach Security

Reach Security is hiring a Senior Staff Security Researcher in San Francisco, CA, US. Remote.

About Reach Security

Reach Security provides a security platform that integrates with an organization's existing security tools to identify blind spots across defenses, prioritize fixes, automatically remediate misconfigurations, and continuously validate that the security posture remains strong. The platform focuses on security control hardening, stopping configuration drift, and providing security posture visibility, network security assurance, and zero trust implementation.

Senior Staff Security Researcher job description

About Reach Security:

Reach www.reach.security integrates with your existing security tools to identify blind spots across your defenses, prioritize fixes, automatically remediate misconfigurations, and continuously validate that your security posture remains strong

About the Role:

Reach Security seeking a skilled Senior Staff Security Researcher who will Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library. Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.

In this role, you will:

  • Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library.

  • Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.

  • Build reproducible research environments, tooling and sandboxes.

  • Replicate malicious behavior to design detection and prevention strategies and collect evidence of attempted/detected/blocked attacks.

Requirements and skills

  • 10 + years of experience in Information Security and or Engineering

  • 5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research.

  • Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks.

  • Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling and proof-of-concepts.

  • Deep curiosity and a habit of experimenting with new AI systems as they emerge.

  • Exceptional technical writing and communication skills.

Working at Reach Security:

  • Competitive salary, and equity package

  • Comprehensive benefits package including:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including plan options with company-paid employee coverage

  • FSA, HSA, and 401(k) plans

  • Company paid life insurance and disability coverage, along with buy up options

  • Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, identify theft coverage, and legal services

  • Unlimited PTO and sick time

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