Sr. 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.

Your day-to-day
We‘re looking for a Staff Engineer to join one of the key teams behind Adaptive Email Security, protecting our customers from the full spectrum of inbound email attacks. In this role, you will work cross-functionally to deliver:

• Engage with the world of Python 3 and AWS, architecting robust distributed systems designed to manage immense volumes of data with exceptional speed.

• Collaborate across various functions, harnessing team synergy to deliver premium solutions and outcomes for our esteemed customers.

• Apply your keen product mindset and tech savvy to help shape AES's future, contributing to our progressive vision.

• Cultivate a supportive environment by providing thoughtful, actionable feedback, fostering growth and development among team members.

• Embrace the responsibility of maintaining and supporting our essential business systems, always mindful of the interplay between scale, latency, and cost.

• Take on the complex task of processing highly sensitive data, a challenge that will refine your skills in data security and handling.

What you bring to the team

• Extensive Python and AWS experience

• You will bring experience of working at scale, and having seen and solved diverse technical challenges in your career

• A product focus: you understand deeply how customers and the wider org are impacted by your decisions, and the work of those you influence

• Someone who is able to “see around corners” and proactively identify problems before they slow us down

• An excellent communicator, able to empathetically communicate and constructively challenge in both technical and non-technical contexts to a diverse audience

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!