It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! _We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business._ 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 We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Toronto office. Proofpoint Email Archiving is a cloud-based solution featuring a distributed grid search and storage infrastructure. This service-based architecture scales to meet the needs of hundreds of clients, including some of the world's largest businesses. As a member of the Archiving eDiscovery team, you will develop and maintain back-end services and infrastructure. The ideal candidate is strategic, self-motivated, creative, and highly communicative, both verbally and in writing, and can adapt quickly to a fast-paced, evolving environment. This is a hands-on role, where you will design and own key back-end components of the eDiscovery product, solve complex issues, and implement intricate business requirements. While the focus is on back-end development, the ability and willingness to work on front-end tasks is also valued. Your Day-to-Day + Collaborate with product managers to define and refine feature requirements. + Work with the scrum master, technical leaders, and manager to ensure designs meet product requirements and resolve technical constraints while ensuring timely delivery. + Participate in Agile/Scrum processes, including daily scrums, retrospectives, planning, and demos. + Continuously seek improvements in product and development processes. + Provide technical expertise to support/sustaining teams to resolve critical production issues. + Ensure high-quality code by practicing continuous integration with unit tests, source control, and integrated build processes. + Research and implement new technologies into development practices. What You Bring to the Team + Minimum 5 years of industry experience delivering production software with demonstrated expertise in Java and related frameworks. + Experience with Solr, OpenSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS S3, EC2, Bedrock, and SES. + Solid understanding of Spring REST API development. + Strong skills in back-end development and the ability to work on front-end tasks when needed. + Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex issues and find effective solutions. + Ability to dive into documentation of new processes or frameworks and bring understanding back to the team. + Self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to communicate technical solutions and designs well to different stakeholders. + Experience with project management and task tracking tools like Jira. + Proficiency with source control tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket. + Ability to work efficiently under pressure and manage multiple assignments. + University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent. What Makes You Stand Out + Experience with front-end frameworks such as Ember.js, React, Angular, or Vue.js. + Knowledge of TypeScript. + Experience with large-scale distributed systems. + Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices. 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! #LifeAtProofpoint \#LI-PH1 _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.