Sr. Security Research Engineer

Overview

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The Role

This highly technical role has a direct and real-time impact protecting Proofpoint customers. As a Senior Security Research Engineer on Proofpoint's Threat Research team, you'll 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. If you enjoy keeping abreast of and analysing attacker techniques, malware and phishing campaigns, and using that knowledge to counteract those threats on a broad scale, then this is the role for you. This role has an absolute and direct impact on the efficacy of Proofpoint products, the quality of Proofpoint's intelligence, and the protection of Proofpoint customers.

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

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!

Why Proofpoint? At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you'll love working with us

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