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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.

The Role

The staff s/w engineers in the tool & data science group are responsible for creating, extending and supporting tools for analyzing and presenting a large and disparate set of real-world data to determine what types of threats are affecting our customers.

This job is an opportunity to create mechanisms to better understand how the people that we’re responsible for protecting are being targeted by bad actors across the globe. With your help, we can advance our state-of-the-art protection mechanisms and keep ahead of an ever-changing threat landscape.

Staff engineers are expected to lead technical group discussions, and to be able to mentor / develop younger engineers.

You will have the opportunity to see directly how the tools you contribute to enable Proofpoint to find, identify, and remediate new threats in the cybersecurity landscape globally.

Your day-to-day

As a staff engineer, you will work with internal users such as threat analysts, other developers and data scientists to create new tools and extend existing tools which mine data in a variety of formats and network locations to present useful information.

We work with a wide variety of internal users, and this job is hands-on. So one day you’ll be meeting with a senior threat intelligence researcher to better understand what we need to build in order to better meet those needs. The next day, you might be writing and releasing code to make some part of our data newly visible to threat analysts.

As you do your work, you’ll have access to the full range of tools that Amazon and other public cloud providers are creating to rapidly analyze and visualize terabytes of complex threat metadata.

You will be expected to own entire projects and applications. Helping to support, optimize, and design for new features, while helping to ensure documentation, monitoring, alerting, and knowledge transfers to the rest of the team.

What you bring to the team

Three over-arching requirements:

• An inquisitive mind with the ability to learn where the data exists in a large and disparate system and what that data means

• The ability to create reliable, tested tools that programmatically turn data into usable information

• The desire and willingness to teach and mentor other developers

Qualifications should include many/most of the following:

• BSCS or greater in relevant technical field with 7 years of experience , or 9+ years experience in a similar role

• 5+ years with writing Javascript code for applications running in a public cloud environment

• Recent hands-on experience with working with Javascript / Typescript / React. We have other engineers who can help frame out front-ends, but you may still be involved in creating or extending front-ends for your services.

• Recent hands-on experience with at least one NoSQL database (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch) required

• Recent hands-on experience with relational databases and SQL (MariaDB, MySQL, etc.) required

• Recent hands-on experience with AWS serverless computing (including SQS/Lambda pipelines and Glue/Spark) not required but very helpful

• Willingness and ability to create and extend test frameworks around the code you write to prevent regressions and identify design flaws

• Jest / Mocha / Cypress / Puppeteer/ etc

• Comfortability working from CLI tools in UNIX / LINUX environment

Nice to have:

• Experience with event driven batch workflows and schedulers (Apache Airflow)

• Experience with containers (docker, eks, etc)

• Experience with SSO protocols (saml2, oauth)

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! #LI-AN1

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.