Staff Information Security Engineer - Threat Defense & Automation

At Proofpoint, we are committed to protecting organizations and individuals from cyber threats through innovative security solutions. Our mission is to safeguard customers from advanced threats, phishing attacks, and data breaches through cutting-edge technology and a global team of security experts.

We're seeking a Staff Information Security Engineer to help lead and evolve our Global Information Security Operation. In this role, you'll shape incident response strategy, push forward advanced threat detection and defense capabilities, and take point on the most complex security investigations across the enterprise.

As a Staff-level engineer, you will operate as a subject matter expert and technical leader, partnering across SOC, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, and Security Engineering to improve Proofpoint's ability to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt advanced threats.

This role includes participation in a 24/7 on-call incident response rotation.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in our Draper, UT or Sunnyvale, CA office 4 days a week.

- Serve as a Level 3 / Staff escalation point for high-severity incidents.

- Lead investigations into APTs, ransomware, insider threats, and cloud compromises.

- Act as incident commander and coordinate response efforts.

- Lead threat hunting across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud.

- Operationalize threat intelligence into detections and response.

- 12+ years in Incident Response, DFIR, Threat Hunting, or Security Operations.

- Deep expertise in incident response, threat hunting, and threat intelligence.

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area: Base Pay Range: 187,700.00 - 275,275.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska: Base Pay Range: 151,000.00 - 221,430.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above: Base Pay Range: 137,000.00 - 200,915.00 USD