Job Details

Proofpoint Overview

We are the leader in human?centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. Were driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work

At Proofpoint, youll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity, guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate, Responsive to feedback, challenges, and opportunities, Accountable for results and best?in?class outcomes, Visionary in future?focused problem?solving, Exceptional in execution and impact.

The Role

This highly technical role has a direct and real?time impact protecting Proofpoint customers. As a Senior Security Research Engineer on Proofpoints Threat Research team, youll be part of an amazing, collaborative, industry?leading team focused on tracking threat actors, malware, phishing, and TTPs in order to develop static and dynamic (behavioural) signatures that detect and prevent threats on a massive scale.

Your day?to?day

• Stay abreast of a constantly evolving threat landscape including the credential phishing landscape
• Analyse malware, malicious documents, and malicious URLs provided by internal and external sources
• Conduct in?depth analysis of email messages to detect and classify threats such as business email compromise (BEC), phishing, and other malicious campaigns.
• Apply critical thinking skills to identify the most efficient and effective way to mitigate the analysed threat
• Develop, test, and deploy appropriate static and/or behavioural signatures to mitigate the analysed threat
• Identify, prioritize, and fill coverage gaps for relevant threats to minimize customer impact
• Be on the rotation for on?call to respond customer FN/FP escalations that cannot be addressed by customer support
• Work effectively as part of a remote team using chat, video chat and conference calls
• Work with engineering teams, defining requirements, for continuous improvement of critical detection capabilities

What You Bring To The Team

• A passion for threat research and a well?rounded yet deep understanding of the security threat landscape
• Demonstrable understanding of the malware and credential phishing landscape, TTPs, and experience overcoming bypass techniques
• Experience proactively identifying, responding to, and defending against malware and credential phishing threats in production environments
• Familiarity with browser internals and the Document Object Model
• Broad and demonstrable understanding of document formats commonly used for malicious purposes (e.g. OLE, CDFv2, PDF, OpenOffice, RTF)
• Experience parsing and analysing malicious documents
• Experience leveraging sandbox environments as an analysis tool
• Critical thinking; able to develop high quality detection signatures based on analysis of malicious behaviour
• Experience creating YARA and/or ClamAV signatures used in production environments
• Regular expression wizardry
• Intermediate?level Python experience
• Interest in learning sandbox engineering concepts and contributing ideas to extend capabilities a plus
• Interest in creating synthetic malicious samples to test capabilities a plus
• Willing and able to work independently and collaboratively as part of a distributed team of industry?leading security researchers
• A hard?working, self?directed team player fully capable of working remotely
• Travel 10%
• Location Work from home in United States
• Must be able to work during business hours local to your time?zone

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award?winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions. Were 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Learning & Development: leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities
• Flexible work environment (remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.)
• Annual wellness and community outreach days
• Always on recognition for your contributions
• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Culture

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success?every day, for everyone. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to ...@proofpoint.com.

How to Apply

Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! Submit your application here:

Compensation & Pay Transparency

Base Pay Range: 161,625.00 237,050.00 USD (SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area) or 132,225.00 193,930.00 USD (other listed metro areas) or 120,525.00 176,770.00 USD (all other cities).

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full?time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Computer and Network Security and Software Development