Data Engineer
ProofPoint (http://www.proofpoint.com) is a market leader messaging security vendor. It is located Silicon Valley at Cupertino, CA. Please submit CV at vsharma@proofpoint.com.
Job Profile:
ProofPoint is looking for a Data Engineer. The candidate will work with experienced Anti-Spam team responsible for developing and maintaining tools for Spam filtering. This is an excellent oppurtunity for an individual interested in learning cool techniques of fighting day to day spam and gain experience in a practicle application of machine learning.
Job responsibilities include:
- Developing new spam detection algorithms and rules.
- Working with other members of Spam Team to facilitate rapid deployment of newly-created rules and spam definition updates to customer base.
- Categorization of email messages in English and other languages.
- Perl programming skills including writing regular expressions (regex) and similar algorithms.
- Basic feature engineering skills with focus on the foreign language phrase extraction.
- Data mining skills including basic database experience (MySQL).
- Basic experience with Unix operating environment.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Near-native fluency in one of the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese.
- Knowledge of HTML markup, especially as it relates to spam techniques.
- Basic knowledge of RFC 822 and SMTP protocol.
- 3+ years experience in a similar role.
