ProofpointRemote
Security Software Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
3 hours ago
$136,000 - $214,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Network traffic inspection toolsWiresharktcpdumpMolochVirtualization technologiesVMwareVirtualBoxKVMScripting languagesLuaPythonRegular expressionsPCREWeb application developmentReactRESTful API designPostgreSQLElasticsearchMongoDBData pipelineETLContainerizationDockerKubernetesRESTful
About this role
Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. They are seeking a Security Software Engineer to build and maintain systems that support the Threat Research team in investigating advanced malware and intrusion techniques.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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 more scripting languages
- Experience with regular expressions/PCRE
- Creativity, enthusiasm for the network threat space, and a willingness to collaborate with the team
- Must be able to work under broad strategic guidance
- Experience building web applications
- RESTful API design and implementation
- Database experience (PostgreSQL, ES, or MongoDB)
- Data pipeline and ETL experience
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Lua and Python proficiency preferred
- React preferred