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# Security Software Engineer

- **Company:** Proofpoint
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $136,200.0 - $214,005.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Networks, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Web Development, Python (Programming Language), Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, PostgreSQL, Lua (Scripting Language), MongoDB, Regular Expressions, Security Software, Tcpdump, Wireshark, VirtualBox, Virtualization Technology, Scripting, ReactJS, Cyber Threat Analysis, Containerization, Kubernetes, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines, Docker, Vmware
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gdmekl

## About the Role

+ 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. Lua and Python proficiency preferred.

 + 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.

What you bring to the team:

 + Experience building web applications (React preferred)

 + RESTful API design and implementation

 + Database experience (PostgreSQL, ES, or MongoDB)

 + Data pipeline and ETL experience

 + Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

## 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


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