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The Role 

At Proofpoint, you will find an environment where innovation comes from creative collaboration and where everyone is empowered to go fast and have fun. If you find joy in making the impossible possible you will feel right at home with our team! The Security Products and Services Group is the core of Proofpoint’s success, and you will be contributing to our efforts to do what we do, even better. If you are excited about delivering high performance scalable solutions that protect Fortune 500 companies and stops the bad guys, this is the place for you. 

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Detection team, you will be focused on the back-end systems that power our industry leading products focused on email Security. These highly sophisticated systems are responsible for protecting the corporate email platform of some of the largest brands in the world. We are looking for someone who is an outstanding team player with a positive attitude, and high energy, to help us deliver state-of-the-art products.  

Your day-to-day 

Lead efforts to design, implement software and support systems using industry best-practices 

Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to identify and implement software solutions to business problems 

Build automation tooling to help monitor production systems 

Address customer reported bugs and provide production support 

Drive usage of best application patterns, technologies, and practices 

Design highly scalable and resilient applications 

Mentor team members 

What you bring to the team 

When it comes to hiring, we value attitude and aptitude over number of years of experience with any specific tool or technology. We assume you know how to code; we’re much more interested in how you design, collaborate, and deliver. Having said that, we are generally looking for the following skills and experience. 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study 

10+ years of demonstrated experience building critical software products 

Excellent coding experience with programming languages preferably Golang and Java 

Understanding of highly distributed architecture 

Experience working with secured APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc) 

Cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar) 

Docker and Kubernetes (desirable) 

Experience working with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana, etc) 

Strong experience working with agile development teams 

Understanding of best practices in performance tuning 

Excellent communication, planning and organizational skills 

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! 

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