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Security Software Engineer

Company

Proofpoint

Location

United States, Utah

Type

Full time

Description

The Proofpoint Threat Research team—including Emerging Threats—investigates and creates protective measures against advanced malware and intrusion techniques used by cybercriminal and nation-state actors. To do this effectively, researchers rely on innovative tooling, scalable infrastructure, and hygienic analysis environments. This role focuses on building and maintaining those systems.


Your day-to-day tasks:

  • Evaluate and support changes to our Threat Analysis environment
  • Analyze needs and create and support internal tools where appropriate
  • Support a team researching new and past threats, including malware, exploit kits, and vulnerabilities

  • Specific techncial areas of need:

  • Experience with network traffic inspection tools, such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Moloch, etc.
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies, such as VMware products, VirtualBox, KVM, etc.
  • Experience with one or m...
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