Cloud Security Researcher

Upwind is a next-generation cloud security platform that uses runtime context to identify and prioritize the risks that actually matter. Our eBPF-powered sensors and agentless posture discovery give us a unique view of cloud environments- from the first commit to the running workloadWe're looking for a Cloud Security Researcher to join the platform research team. This is a chance to shape the platform end to end- expand what it sees, define how it thinks about risk, and build the AI systems that act on what it findsWhat You'll DoIntegrate new systems and domains- from cloud to shift-left tooling and AI providers- model their data, analyze and enrich it with context from across the platform to generate meaningful insightsMap risk vectors, build threat models, and translate them into actionable posture recommendationsDefine how the platform should reason about risk, advancing posture management beyond static rules toward dynamic approaches like graph traversal and reachability analysisShape how AI is applied on top of the platform's findings - from agentic systems for insight, context analysis, and remediation to smarter prioritization and preventionLead research initiatives end-to-end, working with product and engineering to turn them into shipped capabilities