Sr Threat Detection Engineer
Company: Proofpoint
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 3, 2024
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Job Description:
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.
This posting is anticipated to remain open until June 15th,
2024
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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
Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in
2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company
Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales
Teams, and Best HR Teams.
To view additional awards, please visit
www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards
Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse
workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences,
thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute
much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our
organization and embody our people-centric ethos.
We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our
customers' sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented
workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining
their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat
actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent
employees.
Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital
resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and
financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works
tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting
approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive
environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel
that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity,
cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their
professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion
groups which help support both employees and our organization by
providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural
development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more
inclusive workplace.
At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and
brands from today's advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire
the best people in the business to:
Build and enhance our proven security platform
Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud
architecture
Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven
intel
Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security
challenges
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what
matters most. That's why we're a leader in next-generation
cybersecurity-and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as
a security partner.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without
consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin,
age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or
disability.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without
consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin,
age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or
disability.
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