Software Engineer

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  

 Our Engineers are designing and developing our market leading security training and assessment software.  Our goal is to help organizations teach their employees secure behavior through interactive web applications, received and managed by our customers on our proprietary SaaS platform.   

 The ideal candidate is enthusiastic to work with cutting edge technologies in a fast-paced environment supporting a global SaaS product. As a Software Developer you will lend your skill-sets to help lead design and implementation of a key customer facing component that has high visibility and value within the organization.  

Your day to day  

• Work with others on the system design and delivery of a scalable, secure and supportable enterprise software solutions for our customer facing platforms  

• Participate in our agile work flow process, including concept development, architectural design, design specification, story decomposition, planning, executing, testing, acceptance, and retrospection  

What you bring to the team  

• 3+ years’ work experience with JAVA or C# 

• 3+ years’ work experience with any scripting/functional/compiler language like Python/Elixir or Go 

• 3+ years’ experience designing, developing, and supporting applications in a cloud environment 

• BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field 

• Solid understanding of CI/CD and working with tools like Jenkins or similar 

• Experience writing both component integration tests as well as end-to-end acceptance tests 

• Solid understanding of Restful web service architecture 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Ability to manage deadlines and work effectively under pressure

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