Job Description

Data Scientist
About Imperva
Imperva is an analyst-recognized, cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Once deployed, our solutions proactively identify, evaluate, and eliminate current and emerging threats, so you never have to choose between innovating for your customers and protecting what matters most. Imperva Protect the pulse of your business.
We are looking for a talented, experienced Data Scientist who is ever curious about data. We expect this team member to be able to show initiative and creatively find problems as well as solve them. Much of the work of this team is analyzing detection mechanisms in production and then figuring out how to make advances in bot detection, followed by executing on that roadmap.
Hybrid - Vancouver, Canada
What you can expect in this role
Analyze false positives for detection mechanisms to hone the product
Identify and isolate new advanced bot behaviors
Participate in the teams agile ceremonies: daily scrum, weekly backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Demo and share your work with stakeholders
Collaborate with product managers, data scientists and software engineers to understand business objectives and customer pain points.
Engage with customers and frontline teams to better understand use cases and pain points
Spend time analyzing web traffic data to identify and isolate new advanced bot behaviors
Design and implement new bot detection methods
Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Data curiosity. Many of the problems we face reduce to data problems. Must be proficient with analysis and processing of very large datasets
• Determination to solve problems through technical and organizational hurdles.
• Interest in threat detection/identification in an arms race situation. Attackers are constantly trying to bypass our systems. We need to patch vulnerabilities in our existing detection methods that attackers are exploiting as well as come up with new methods and techniques.
• Customer focus: this is both a product team as well as a research team. We need to be willing and able to work with the codebase and provide value to our customers.
• Ability to execute. What we want is demonstrated ability to get things done and work through impediments when they arise.
• Staying informed about developments in Data Science, statistics and related fields. The ideal candidate can read and implement the ideas of research papers.

Minimum Requirements:

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Data Analysis, Statistics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience performing data analysis
• Demonstrated experience with software experience fundamentals: command line, version control, pull request review, software maintenance, etc.
• Proficiency in analytical programming in Python, R or Julia (Python is preferred)
• In-depth knowledge of data processing and analysis libraries such as Pandas or Rs tidyverse
• Data visualization skills
• In-depth, experienced understanding of SQL
• Familiar with machine learning principles and techniques
• Working knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to communicate insights in laymans terms to stakeholders to inform product decisions

Advantage:

• Cyber security or web analytics

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is CAD$106,000 - $130,000. The salary offered will be determined based on the candidates experience, knowledge, skills, other qualifications, and location.
Our Company:
Imperva is an analyst-recognized, cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Once deployed, our solutions proactively identify, evaluate, and eliminate current and emerging threats, so you never have to choose between innovating for your customers and protecting what matters most. Imperva Protect the pulse of your business. Learn more: , our , on .
Rewards:
Imperva offers a competitive compensation package that includes base salary, medical, flexible time off, salary continuance for adoption or birth of a child and more. Its an exciting time to work in the security space. Check out our products and services at and career opportunities at
Legal Notice:
Imperva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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