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Company Overview
At Proofpoint, people are at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success, and to that of our customers.
Were customer-focused, collaborative and committed to excellence.
Through a culture of diversity, honesty and initiative, we deliver meaningful innovation that helps manage todays biggest threats.
With opportunities in all functions,we offer many exciting reasons to join our team.
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 (behavioral) signatures that detect and prevent threats on a massive scale.
If you enjoy keeping abreast of and analyzing 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 Proofpoints intelligence, and the protection of Proofpoint customers.
Your day-to-day
Stay abreast of a constantly evolving threat landscape including the credential phishing landscape
Analyze malware, malicious documents, and malicious URLs provided by internal and external sources
Develop, test, and deploy appropriate static and|or behavioral signatures to mitigate the analyzed threat
Identify, prioritize, and fill coverage gaps for relevant threats in order to minimize customer impact
Respond to customer FN|FP escalations that cannot be addressed by customer support
Work effectively aspart 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 ( OLE, CDFv2, PDF, OpenOffice, RTF)
Experience parsing and analyzing malicious documents
Experience leveraging sandbox environments as an analysis tool
Critical thinking:
Able to develop high quality detection signatures based on analysis of malicious behavior
Experience creating YARA and|or ClamAV signatures used in production environments
Regular expression wizardry
Intermediate-level Python experience
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
Additional Information
Travel:
10%
**Location**:
Work from home in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy)
Must be able to work business hours local to your time-zone
Why Proofpoint
We are wholly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk:
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!