Sr. Software Engineer
Proofpoint
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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**
Proofpoint’s Security Products Group is looking for a thriving engineer to work on designing, building, and deploying large-scale threat detection platform.
Our team develops the next generation distributed pipeline to detect, analyze and produce intelligence for the latest cyberattacks from sophisticated threat actors. Our detection services are the foundational components which are leveraged across Proofpoint’s cybersecurity product offerings to protect our customers from threats delivered through email, social media, and SaaS applications.
We are a fast-paced, high-energy team where you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact. Our team values a strong engineering culture that emphasizes the craftsmanship of writing maintainable code, continuous learning, and solving big problems. Engineers on our team work across the software stack to address challenges related to scalability, reliability, and testability.
**Your day-to-day**
+ Be an integral member of our engineering team responsible for building critical threat-hunting and detection services.
+ Take end-to-end responsibility for implementation, deployment, and onboarding of new features and services
+ Write code and integrate open-source technologies as needed to solve complex challenges
+ Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the team’s capacity
+ Contribute innovative ideas to stay ahead of threat actors and continuously improve the engineering team
+ Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, threat analysts, product managers and other engineers to deliver projects
**What you bring to the team**
+ Extensive experience building compute-intensive and high-volume services
+ Proven hands on **Java** development experience within a collaborative engineering team
+ Coding experience with both OO and scripting languages (Java, Go, Python)
+ Motivation and growth mindset to learn new technologies and domains
+ A positive, can-do attitude and a passion for excellence in the workplace
+ Excellent collaboration and communication skills
**Nice to Have**
+ BSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
+ Knowledge of cybersecurity domain, threat detection engineering or malware sandboxing are a bonus
**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
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_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.
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