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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.  Proofpoint.
 

The Role

As a 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 a product that is 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 languages: Python, GO, or similar

• 4+ years of software development experience

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

• Knowledge of cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, dockers, and similar to develop microservices architecture

• Strong conviction to solve critical business problems efficiently, 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 Linux

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

• Good interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively, combined with excellent written and oral communication skills

Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LI-AN1

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

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 128,940.00 - 202,620.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 106,750.00 - 167,750.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 96,320.00 - 151,360.00 USD