Senior Spam Data Analyst Job Description
Description
We are looking for a highly intelligent, driven person to join a dynamic group of people who are passionate about saving the world from the growing threat of messaging abuse. And we're competing against a very active, creative, and motivated adversary who was credited as sending over 40 trillion Spam messages last year alone! If you're interested in helping us to achieve our goal and rid the world of spam, we'd definitely like to speak with you. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence.
Responsibilities include:
- Member of a creative, enthusiastic, and geographically-distributed team (in a 24/7/365 "follow the sun" model) that is responsible for identifying, parameterizing, and responding quickly to spam attacks levied against some of the world's largest organizations
- Analyze misclassified messages (spam and legitimate) and make updates to spam definitions to correct their classifications.
- Perform deep analyses of spam message headers & structures to identify novel spam features, and design regular-expression (regex) based rules to detect those features
- Ad-hoc development of tools as necessary to aid/streamline analysis activities
- Provide responses and explanations to customers with questions about the spam classifier
- Handle advanced cases escalated by junior spam analysts
- Help us define the landscape, prevalence, and evolution of messaging abuse, threats, and attacks by participating in future requirements definition discussions of our products
Senior Spam Data Analyst Job Requirements
Requirements:
- Familiarity with Unix environments and comfort with a range of Unix command line tools for manipulating and extracting content from text files
- Good experience with Perl, especially advanced regular expressions and Unix command line invocations
- General familiarity with how mail delivery works including SMTP
- Good grasp of algorithmic concepts in computer science (e.g., sorting, data structures, etc.)
- Willingness to play an important technical role that does NOT primarily involve development
- General curiosity about the headers and structure of email messages
- Demonstrated analytical and creative problem solving abilities
- Willingness to interact with customers (web and occasionally phone-based support) to help resolve their issues
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey highly technical information in an accessible manner
- Ability to work independently yet fully integrate with worldwide, remote teams
- Can-do attitude with a focus on problem solving, product quality, and a strong desire to get the job done
- BSCS or equivalent degree/experience
Proofpoint, Inc. helps the largest and most successful companies in the world protect and govern their most sensitive data. Founded in 2002 by the former CTO of Netscape and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Proofpoint was funded by top Silicon Valley investors, including Benchmark Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures before going public earlier this year. Please note that Proofpoint does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, Proofpoint will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Proofpoint explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
Senior Spam Data Analyst Application Information
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Senior Spam Data Analyst Summary
| Education Backgrounds: |
Business Engineering
Software Engineering
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| Specialties: |
Algorithms
Database
Programming
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| Education Level: |
Undergraduate (Bachelors)
Postgraduate (Masters)
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| Experience: |
2 - 5 years
5 - 10 Years
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| Languages spoken: |
English
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| Job Location: |
Reading, England |
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