Sr Threat Detection Engineer

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

This role is responsible for creating detections rules for our Emerging Threats Pro IDS ruleset and as well as static detections for email-based threats. You'll research an ever-changing landscape of phishing, malware, and exploits to create network and file-based signatures to detect same.

As a Proofpoint Senior Threat Detection Engineer, you will perform in-depth malware analysis and spend time searching through open source as well as internal data to facilitate signature creation, analyzing threats, and make that information meaningful to our customers. You’ll be a part of a team of dynamic and creative threat researchers focused on finding new and emerging threats, understanding how they work, and using that knowledge to improve our products.

Your day-to-day

• Write intrusion detection rules for the Snort and Suricata platforms

• Answer support questions about rule guidance and false positives

• Work with the open source community to maintain and optimize the ETOpen ruleset

• Research new and past threats, including malware, exploit kits, and vulnerabilities

What you bring to the team

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

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

• An interest in the larger threat landscape

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

• Experience with one or more scripting languages. Lua and Python proficiency preferred.

• Experience analyzing and interpreting host, network, and memory artifacts from sandbox environments.

• Experience with regular expressions/PCRE.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Creativity, enthusiasm for the malware space, and a willingness to collaborate with the team.

• Must be able to work independently.

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 116,690.00 - 183,370.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 96,880.00 - 152,240.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 87,220.00 - 137,060.00 USD