Sr. Security Research Engineer

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About 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 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, prioritise, and fill coverage gaps for relevant threats to minimise customer impact
• Be on the rotation for on-call to respond to customer 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

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