About the company:
At Proton Technologies AG we envision an internet where privacy is the default, and we’re building ways to help all people secure their digital lives and take control of their data.
Proton Technologies AG was founded in 2014 by a group of scientists who met at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). And since its inception the company has grown at a fast pace and today has over 40 million users. Our principal product, ProtonMail, is the world’s largest secure email service. Our second product, ProtonVPN, is one of the world’s most popular VPN services. Our vision is to build an internet platform for the protection of digital rights, and we are also developing additional products, including ProtonCalendar, ProtonDrive and more to come.
Our users include leaders of the Hong Kong protest movement, New York Times journalists, some of the world’s largest corporations, and millions of ordinary citizens from over 180 countries. Our team is diverse and dynamic, representing over 30 different nationalities, with offices in Geneva, Zurich, Prague, Vilnius, Skopje, and Taipei. We are also considering future potential office locations such as London and Barcelona.
About the position:
We are looking for an intern to work on anti-abuse technologies for our flagship VPN service. The candidate participating in the internship will be part of the R&D team, reporting to the R&D Team lead and liaising with the Infrastructure team. ProtonVPN is a distributed service allowing millions of users everyday to safely access the Internet having their privacy guaranteed. For this to be possible ProtonVPN employs a strict no-log policy. In order to guarantee the quality and reputation of our services for all of our users we need to introduce techniques to spot the most typical form of abuses and stop them on the spot or render them ineffective or non-worthy. All this must be done strictly respecting the no-log policy, hence without any temporary storage of network traffic to disk or outside of the VPN server.
What you will do: