OSINT Researcher (EU Remote)

About SEON

SEON is the leading fraud prevention system of record, catching fraud before it happens at any point across the customer journey. Trusted by over 5,000 global companies, we combine your company’s data with our proprietary real-time signals to deliver actionable fraud insights tailored to your business outcomes. We deliver the fastest time to value in the market through a single API call, enabling quick and seamless onboarding and integration. By analyzing billions of transactions, we’ve prevented $200 billion in fraudulent activities, showcasing why the world’s most innovative companies choose SEON.

Your role the team:

As an OSINT Researcher at SEON, you will be at the forefront of discovering, analyzing, and integrating publicly accessible data sources that enhance our fraud prevention capabilities. You will conduct in-depth investigations on websites, platforms, and mobile applications to extract actionable intelligence, develop research prototypes in Python, and collaborate closely with engineers to turn your findings into scalable, production-grade solutions. This role will work within our Data Enrichment Team.

This is a Remote position and the ideal candidate will be based in the EU.

What you'll do:

Core OSINT Research

• Conduct open-source investigations across websites, platforms, and mobile applications to uncover relevant and verifiable data points.
• Research hundreds of online sources and surface-level or deep web endpoints to identify patterns, behaviors, and structures for data extraction.
• Stay current with OSINT tools, cyber intelligence practices, and threat actor tactics in the digital fraud landscape.
• Collect, analyze, and organize intelligence from diverse public sources, including data breaches, forums, and leaked datasets.

Reverse Engineering Prototyping

• Reverse engineer web and mobile applications to identify and extract accessible data points.
• Intercept and analyze network traffic using tools such as Burp Suite, mitmproxy, or Frida to understand client-server interactions.
• Build proof-of-concept scrapers and automation scripts in Python 3.9+ to validate the viability of OSINT data sources.
• Use proxy infrastructure (residential, datacenter, rotating) to conduct distributed, anonymized research at scale.

Collaboration and Impact

• Partner closely with software engineers to refine and productionize successful research findings into high-throughput data enrichment services.
• Proactively contribute to improving SEON’s data-gathering platform by identifying new sources and more efficient data extraction methods.
• Participate in technical design discussions related to crawler architecture and OSINT pipelines.

What you'll bring:

• Strong hands-on experience with Python 3.9+, including libraries for HTTP requests, asynchronous workflows, scraping, and automation.
• Proven web and mobile reverse engineering skills, including traffic interception, request signature decoding, and anti-bot circumvention.
• Familiarity with tools like Burp Suite, mitmproxy, Frida, or similar for debugging and traffic inspection.
• Experience using cyber intelligence platforms and mining publicly available data (including open forums, leaks, or search engines).
• Knowledge of fraud tactics and a keen interest in understanding threat actors and their digital footprints.
• A strong analytical mindset and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).

Nice to have:

• Prior experience in structured OSINT investigations or cyber threat research.
• Contributions to open-source OSINT tools, projects, or participation in relevant communities.
• Background in penetration testing, bug bounty programs, or ethical hacking.
• Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda, S3, etc.) and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with automation frameworks and/or OSINT-specific platforms like Maltego, Spiderfoot, or Recon-ng.

What’s next:

Does that sound good to you? Great, we can’t wait to hear from you! Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to work at SEON first? 👉 https://seon.io/careers/