Sr. Threat Research Engineer

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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. 
 

The Role

Research capability needs to move at the speed of Threat Research and the landscape itself. This role is responsible for creating and maintaining robust research and detection solutions within Proofpoint Threat Research. You'll enable our team to write network and email defense signatures to detect and adjudicate threats to our customers.
 

As a Proofpoint Threat Research Engineer, you will aid the Threat Research team performing landscape analysis and work to best enable the processes, tooling, and infrastructure that will deliver the best-in-class research and detections we require. You’ll be a part of a team of dynamic and creative threat researchers focused on finding these threats, understanding how we can efficiently protect against them, and using that knowledge to improve our products.

Your day-to-day

• Providing the only protective response from Proofpoint from future supply-chain vulnerabilities such as SolarWinds, Proxylogon, PrintNightmare, and Log4j.

• Work within Threat Research to analyze processes and introduce efficiencies

• Enable automations within existing manual processes

• Represent Threat Research to our Global Information Security organization to ensure fidelity and security of solutions

• Create robust alerting and monitoring schema for critical infrastructure regarding the ET product

• Research new and past workflows to build proactive solutions for team quality-of-life

What you bring to the team

• Experience with network traffic inspection tools, such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Arkime.

• Familiarity with signatures for the Snort or Suricata IDS platforms.

• An interest in the larger information security threat landscape

• Ability to analyze collated data and triage efforts for best efficacy return

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies, such as VMware products, VirtualBox, KVM, etc.

• Experience with one or more scripting languages.

• Python proficiency preferred.

• Experience with PCRE. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Creativity, enthusiasm for the email threat space, and willingness to learn from mentors

• Must be able to work independently

Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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