Senior Security Research Engineer

. Stay abreast of a constantly evolving threat landscape and modern tech stacks needed to support research .

Posted 4/8/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $124,100 - $244,200 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSPandasPythonSplunk

Key responsibilities & impact

Stay abreast of a constantly evolving threat landscape and modern tech stacks needed to support research
Work in partnership with threat researchers to design and implement tools and systems which enable their ability to track, contextualize, and report on malicious activity
Liaison with other engineering units within Proofpoint to ensure stakeholder requirements are communicated and as a consultant to help those units understand the needs of a security-focused end-user constituency
Work effectively as part of a remote team using chat, video chat, and conference calls

What you’ll need

Passion for threat research and a well-rounded understanding of the threat landscape
Ability to understand the threat researcher's needs, transform them into consistent & efficient system requirements and implement them
Experience developing tooling in a variety of programming languages, but predominantly Python
Experience integrating existing tooling into comprehensive systems which are deployable to a distributed team (devOps, architecture)
Experience working with large datasets and associated tools and libraries, such as relational databases, AWS, Splunk, Pandas, Jupyter, etc.
Self-directed and accountable
Outstanding communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics to a variety of internal stakeholders
Understanding of malware analysis fundamentals, for example interpreting the results of sandbox analysis (Nice to have)
Experience with LLM and agent/agentic framework development and support (Nice to have)
Prior experience tracking threat actors and/or malware families (Nice to have)
Experience performing the above in a fully remote environment (Nice to have)

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythondevOpsarchitecturemalware analysislarge datasetsrelational databasesAWSSplunkPandasJupyter

Soft Skills

self-directedaccountableoutstanding communicationability to present complex topicscollaborationconsultation