Software Developer

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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.

The Role

We’re looking for a highly effective and experienced Backend Python Engineer to design and deliver scalable, resilient systems to join a highly successful team of developers.

You will work on highly innovative next-generation security technologies, aligned to our Human Risk Management product group. Human Risk Management (HRM) is a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity that centres on understanding, measuring, and mitigating the risks associated with human behaviour within an organisation.

Your day-to-day

• Collaborate with a supportive agile team to write high-quality software with clean, readable code which helps customers understand and defend against email threats
• You will play a key role in building a large-scale SaaS using cutting-edge technologies of various disciplines.
• You’ll take part in the design, development, and deployment of multiple aspects of the service: from REST APIs and highly-available management systems, through to the scalable distributed system as well as, intelligent network data-path processing
• You will be using the latest open-source software and technologies.

What you bring to the team

• 4+ years in hands-on software development of complex back-end systems
• Demonstrable Python (or Node.js) ability – you’ve had your code running, delivering value and being supported in at least one real commercial environment
• BSc degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience
• Awareness of CICD, testing, and cloud services (eg AWS/GCP/Azure) including streaming or event-driven architectures
• Experience of network technologies: IP protocols (TCP/UDP/ICMP), IP tunnelling, IP filtering is a plus
• Understanding of what it means to work in an agile way, collaborate with peers in all disciplines and embrace feedback

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation 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!