Cybersecurity Engineer

Job ID: 27-0354

Come Join Our Passionate Team!  At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 220,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. 
 
We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization.  Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. 

Envision yourself at Barracuda 

Barracuda is looking for a highly technical security professional to join our team with a primary focus on identifying emerging threats, understanding evolving adversarial tradecraft, and translating that knowledge into actionable detection and defensive capabilities.

This role sits at the intersection of threat intelligence, detection engineering, offensive security, and adversary emulation. You will research emerging vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, intrusion techniques, and attacker behaviors to understand how modern threats are evolving and how those threats can be detected across Barracuda’s security ecosystem.

You will help answer a critical question for our customers and our organization:
“If an attacker used this technique against us today, would we actually detect it?”

You will investigate how real-world adversaries operate, identify gaps in our ability to detect their behavior, and help develop the telemetry, analytics, detections, and defensive capabilities needed to identify and disrupt them. As a secondary responsibility, you will simulate adversary behavior to validate detection capabilities and expose gaps in defensive coverage. You will safely reproduce attacker TTPs, conduct controlled attack simulations, and measure whether security controls and detections perform as expected.

You will collaborate closely with Threat Intelligence, Security Operations (XDR), Incident Response, and Product teams to continuously improve Barracuda’s ability to detect and respond to evolving threats.

Being a team player, strong communicator, and forward-thinking security practitioner is essential for success in this role. You will be a technical leader within the team, helping mentor others and advance Barracuda’s capabilities in threat-informed detection and adversary validation.

What You’ll Be Working On

Emerging Threat & Adversarial Tradecraft Research

• Research emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, and adversary campaigns.
• Analyze evolving attacker TTPs and identify new techniques that may impact Barracuda and its customers.
• Track changes in adversary tradecraft and translate findings into actionable defensive requirements.
• Investigate how novel attack techniques can be detected through available telemetry, security controls, and product capabilities.
• Identify gaps in existing detection coverage and recommend improvements to close those gaps.
• Analyze real-world attacks and incidents to identify new detection opportunities and defensive lessons.
• Develop technical assessments of new threats, including attack paths, required telemetry, observable behaviors, and detection opportunities.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence and security teams to operationalize emerging threat intelligence.

Detection Development & Validation

• Develop and improve detection strategies for emerging and known adversary behaviors.
• Translate attacker TTPs into detection logic, analytics, behavioral indicators, and detection requirements.
• Evaluate whether existing detections can reliably identify real-world adversary behavior.
• Identify detection blind spots and determine what additional telemetry or a