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Company 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.

The Role

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join the CASB Group. This team is responsible for design and development of a robust, scalable and sophisticated Cloud Apps Security Platform, which detects suspicious activity in real-time, analyzes, infers and acts upon unsecured user actions. You will use and teach the best methodologies for high quality designing, coding and testing. In return you will be part of a team facing engineering challenges in a dynamic environment.  

Your day-to-day  

Design and develop the backend of a distributed reactive messaging-based system, using open source technologies 

Perform code reviews. 

Leading development processes and mentoring other team members. 

Coding in Scala and working with streaming frameworks like Kafka and Akka stream, working with NoSQL DBs like Elastic Search and Couchbase.  

Build and deploy applications and components in a cloud-based environment (AWS) 

Working closely with the QA and DevOps team to monitor and support a critical production system used by clients around the world  

Understand the domain of cloud applications and cloud security 

What you bring to the team 

Superb skills and deep knowledge in Computer Science and Engineering 

Expertise with Scala advantageous. 

Alternative to scala is knowledge in Java's functional features, like lambdas and Stream API. Excellent understanding in Concurrency and Multithreading required.

Track record in full product life cycle, from design to production, building 24x7 systems, preferably SaaS (or web)

Experience with building scalable, reliable and resilient distributed systems 

Experience in working with streaming frameworks

An academic degree in relevant technical field 

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 treating them well is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in 10 countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture! 

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