Senior Backend Engineer

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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

As a Senior Software Engineer on our latest security product team, you will be building massive-scale systems used by Fortune 100 customers to identify and remediate risks from their most vulnerable trusted parties. This development will include powering production-grade pipelines to handle all our customers’ traffic, as well as ensuring these systems can scale as gracefully and economically as possible. This is a uniquely challenging role: we empower small teams to make large impacts, the scale of our data is legitimately huge, and we’re building product that is absolutely mission-critical to our customers 24/7/365.

Your day-to-day

* Design new system subcomponents and serve as technical lead for new feature enhancements

* Build systems that interface with our distributed database infrastructure and incoming streams of threat data making use of tech like Kafka and Flink

* Manage complex workflows interacting with multiple distributed systems

* Implement secure pipelines that don’t lose data and are resilient to system failures

* Write automation code that deploys and monitors your systems in the cloud

* Evaluate new design & code patterns regularly; learn new techniques and technologies through peer review and mentorship; share what you have learned with your peers

What you bring to the team

* Prior experience with one or more JVM languages: Java, Scala, or similar

* Prior experience working with large databases (e.g. planning queries, designing new tables to hold billions of records)

* Knowledge of cloud computing platforms like EC2, or similar

* Strong conviction to solve critical business problems in an efficient manner, building on your experience in a mature software development lifecycle (SDLC)

* Experience leading projects in a technical capacity, including architecture and design as well as developing coding standards highly desired

* Prior experience & a working knowledge with service deployments on Linux

* A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

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!