Cleafy is a SaaS security company built by fraud hunters, security engineers, data scientists, and software developers with a shared mission: shift left security.
At Cleafy, we consider any digital fraud the last step of an attack. We shift left fraud management, managing the attack before it executes the fraud. We provide an AI-driven security platform that helps banks and financial institutions to detect threats in advance and to mitigate them in real time, anticipating fraud and bridging the gap between cybersecurity and fraud prevention.
Cleafy is expanding internationally, and we are looking to hire an Android malware analyst to join our Threat Intelligence and Incident Response Team (TIR).
In this role, you will be right in the middle of the action, hunting the most aggressive and complex attack campaigns and frauds while still in action. As a member of our TIR team, you will analyze customer data and traffic, scouting for suspicious behaviors and unknown attacks before they go to scale. Moreover, you will also discover new and unknown threats to keep our classification and detection capabilities up to date.
Responsibilities
- Perform strategic, tactical, and operational research and analysis on modern Android threats, focusing on banking trojans
- Conducting malware clustering
- Conducting research into unknown emerging Android banking trojan families
- Hunting TTPs of threat actors
- Writing technical reports
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a cybersecurity role, either SOC analyst, security engineer, or consultant
- Solid knowledge of web and mobile security principles
- Ability to create technical reports
- Fluency in English and Italian, written and verbal
- Experience with programming languages using Python, C, Java (or similar)
Plus
- 2+ years of experience in static/dynamic malware analysis with demonstrated skills
- Proven ability in triaging threats (or malware families) using automated processes (e.g., sandboxes)
- Explaining technical details/efforts in a concise, actionable manner
Benefits
- Meal vouchers (Ticket Restaurant)
- Welfare benefits program
- Smart working flexibility
- Up to 8 hours of paid volunteering time per month
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave to support work-life balance
RAL: €37,000 - €46,000
Cleafy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any kind. Our company is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cleafy are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to ethnicity, color, gender, religion or belief, age, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in a cybersecurity role, such as SOC analyst, security engineer, or consultant
- Solid knowledge of web and mobile security principles
- Ability to create technical reports
- Fluency in English and Italian, written and verbal
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, C, Java, or similar
- 2+ years of experience in static and dynamic malware analysis with demonstrated skills
- Ability to triage threats or malware families using automated processes such as sandboxes
- Ability to explain technical details and efforts concisely and actionably
What We Do
We are a team of fraud hunters, cybersecurity experts, data scientists, and software engineers that since 2014 share the same dream: make technology a safer place. Every day, we work side by side with our customers to help them safely navigate digital opportunities, while growing their business. And we do it with passion, determination, and constant curiosity about the unexpected. Our purpose is to make people’s life easier and free from the threats hidden in the digital ecosystem. That’s why we designed a real-time technology that enables fraud management teams in financial institutions to detect and prevent financial fraud across all digital channels, while ensuring a safe and seamless experience for the end-users. Recognized as a market leader by industry analysts, today we protect over 60M+ users of top-tier retail and corporate banks against financial online fraud









