Research Analyst (AdTech)

Join a team of innovators shaping the future of digital security. Our client builds cutting-edge protection solutions by uniting business insight, engineering excellence, and research expertise. 

CUSTOMER

Our Сustomer provides comprehensive security solutions designed to protect individuals, organizations, and communities. Operating across various sectors, the company addresses vulnerabilities and ensures protection against a wide range of risks, especially in the digital space. Its products focus on bot defense and anti-malvertising solutions specifically for AdTech companies. This includes onboarding and integration processes for different partners, including Supply-Side Platforms (SSPs), Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs), agencies, and publishers. They provide protection solutions for a variety of use cases, along with a customizable reporting console and APIs that can be seamlessly integrated into clients’ systems.

PROJECT

We are working with a highly dynamic AdTech ecosystem with the goal of protecting the world from malvertising. The solution in the center of this project is part of a portfolio that includes a variety of software products.

Responsibilities

• Resolve false positives and false negatives by reviewing traffic flows and verifying whether flagged items are indeed legitimate threats 

• Maintain a manual list of domains for review or blocking: identify domain mismatches and cases where publishers display or report an incorrect domain 

• Review action logs and raw data: check for mentions of specific platforms or evidence of malicious scripts 

• Monitor alerts in the Slack channel: evaluate alerts, spot suspicious activity (e.g., bot behavior, actions a real person wouldn’t take) 

• Lead research initiatives for 1–3 customer accounts, delivering specialized insight reports into threats and data quality 

• Identify top customer concerns and recurring issues, then feed them back to improve product systematically  

• Serve as the Research/Detection team representative in business reviews and customer calls, presenting complex analysis clearly to non-technical audiences 

• Collaborate with Customer Success Engineering to deliver new customer-facing features 

• Spot impactful detection leads and help drive faster mitigation of emerging threats in products 

• Develop stop-gap defenses for novel threats through analyses, models, algorithms, and dashboards 

• Build complex queries and reports (sub-queries, temp tables, complex joins, variables) to analyze historical data 

• Improve existing techniques and tooling to reduce time-to-detection and increase operational efficiency   

• Document models, algorithms, and analyzes to ensure visibility, transparency, and auditability of work

Requirements

• 4+ years of proven experience as a Research Analyst

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data extraction and analysis

• Proficiency in HTML and CSS

• Solid understanding of database concepts and hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL systems

• Familiarity with key networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs)

• Strong troubleshooting skills for system and network-related issues

• Upper-Intermediate level of English

• Availability to work Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00–20:00 European time

WOULD BE A PLUS 

• Experience with Snowflake 

• AdTech experience (ORTB, DSP, SSP)

PERSONAL PROFILE

• Proactivity and attention to detail  

• Willingness to communicate and push others to get feedback  

• Ability to follow tasks through to completion, “get things done” attitude