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Sr Software Engineer

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role

Are you curious, analytical and motivated by new challenges and willing to prove it? Do you want to deliver enterprise-wide solutions that promote flexibility, scalability and high performance to millions of users? Do you want to learn and apply new skills on an ongoing basis? If so, we would like to hear from you!

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer who would be working across the Proofpoint product teams to build on top of a world class platform and shared services suite of solutions. This position involves architecture, design, implementation and operation of large-scale cloud-based services that form the backbone of Proofpoint’s product suite.

Your day-to-day You would be expected to act independently to drive the requirements for and own large components within the platform and shared services systems throughout their lifecycle: participate in requirement discussions, gathering and analysis, architecture/design, implementation, testing and deployment rollouts and production support. For this position you would need to exhibit strong technical leadership and communication skills, define and successfully execute engineering roadmap initiatives within an agile application development environment.

What you bring to the team

• 10+ years of strong server-side development experience. Experience of front-end development a bonus.

• Proven hands-on expertise in developing software in an Agile manner.

• Experience with scalability/high availability and distributed data services.

• Experience building, deploying and monitoring large scale cloud services. AWS preferred.

• Experience in modern authentication mechanisms, Authz/Authn.

• Authoritative level understanding and hands-on experience with REST/Web services using JSON.

• Strong Object-Oriented Analysis and design concepts.

• Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL implementations.

• Exposure to modern DevOps methodologies with CI/CD pipelines.

• Ownership of high value product features and technical initiatives.

• Ability to act independently as a lead on complex projects and collaborate with the team.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Play well with others! Be a great teammate and help us maintain our positive culture

• Share knowledge with the team both formally and informally.

• Ready to adapt and contribute across the wider team as needed.

• Provide mentoring and thought leadership to other team members.

• Expertise in Linux.

• Expertise in, or a strong desire to learn, a wide range of technologies, including: Java, JavaScript, React.js, REST/JSON APIs, Linux, AWS, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, terraform, Jenkins, Selenium, Git

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best, the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multinational company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture! #LI-AN1

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.