Staff Software 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. Proofpoint.

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on our threat intelligence team, you will be building massive-scale systems used by Fortune 100 customers which contain everything our company knows about the threat landscape.

This development will include powering both search & explore use cases across our cloud data, as well as obtaining customer-specific data using their infrastructure.

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 to help customers to hunt for a needle in a haystack. #

Your day-to-day

• Design & implement algorithms that combine data from disparate systems into meaningful insights for customers
• Build fault-tolerant systems that can recover from individual system failures with no data loss
• Design, code, review, test, and deploy software features in our application stack
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and challenging environment with a focus on driving best practices across the organization
• Support the team and production applications by resolving bugs and other technical issues
• Write automation code that deploys and monitors your systems in the cloud

What you bring to the team

• Prior experience building high-performance code with Scala, Java, or similar
• Ability to see the big picture, collaborate with cross-product teams, and drive architectural conversations
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting applications in a micro-services cloud environment
• Experience with containerizing applications (e.g. Docker)
• Knowledge of CI / CD and working with tools like Jenkins or similar
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passion, curiosity, integrity, and outstanding attention to detail while performing tasks
• A "get it done" attitude consistent with a team where everyone writes code
• A desire to push yourself & your team to do their best work
• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

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

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

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below.

Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee.

This role may be eligible for variable pay and / or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges :

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area :

Base Pay Range : 189,750.00 - 278,300.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska :

Base Pay Range : 158,400.00 - 232,320.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above :

Base Pay Range : 144,825.00 - 212,410.00 USD