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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.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on our latest security product team, you will be building massive-scale systems used by Fortune 100 customers to identify and remediate risks from their most vulnerable trusted parties. This development will include powering production-grade pipelines to handle all our customers' traffic, as well as ensuring these systems can scale as gracefully and economically as possible. This is a uniquely challenging role: we empower small teams to make large impacts, the scale of our data is legitimately huge, and we're building product that is absolutely mission-critical to our customers 24/7/365.

Your day-to-day

• Design new system subcomponents and serve as technical lead for new feature enhancements

• Build systems that interface with our distributed database infrastructure and incoming streams of threat data making use of tech like Kafka and Flink

• Manage complex workflows interacting with multiple distributed systems

• Implement secure pipelines that don't lose data and are resilient to system failures

• Write automation code that deploys and monitors your systems in the cloud

• Evaluate new design & code patterns regularly; learn new techniques and technologies through peer review and mentorship; share what you have learned with your peers

What you bring to the team

• Prior experience with one or more JVM languages: Java, Scala, or similar

• Prior experience working with large databases (e.g. planning queries, designing new tables to hold billions of records)

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms like EC2, or similar

• Strong conviction to solve critical business problems in an efficient manner, building on your experience in a mature software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Experience leading projects in a technical capacity, including architecture and design as well as developing coding standards highly desired

• Prior experience & a working knowledge with service deployments on Linux

• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

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 multi-national 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 six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, 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.