Software Engineer

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organisations’ 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 organisations 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 is why we are a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Tessian XFI (Cross Functional Integrations) team. The Tessian XFI team oversees the integration of Tessian inbound threat defence software, via API, to the Microsoft or Google e-mail platforms, and the development of Add-in (currently for Microsoft Office) for data loss prevention (DLP).
 

You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the team prepares to furtherly scale the Tessian XFI services and products, following the Proofpoint acquisition. We are also looking to the next steps of integration, with Microsoft, and to integrate deeper with the Proofpoint ecosystem.

The XFI team’s tech stack includes:

• Python 3.10

  • Other Object-Oriented Programming languages are a bonus

• AWS Services such as

  • SQS, SNS

  • ECS, ECR

  • Lambda functions

• High volume NoSQL and SQL databases such as

  • Dynamo DB

  • Postgres

• Terraform built environments

• DevOps tools and methodologies such as:

  • CircleCI pipelines management

  • Docker containerization

  • Git and GitHub for software versioning

Your day-to-day

In the Tessian XFI Team, we deeply appreciate DevOps culture, as we build the XFI services, and we run it. Our day to day involves improving XFI services scalability and reliability; researching security vulnerabilities and implementing security measures; and monitoring production environments to discover what is next for the team using product data. Our research also includes ways to improve user experience when using our products Outlook clients (desktop and OWA) on both Windows and Mac platforms and to help hardening the Human Security Layer
 

You will be expected to:

• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors

• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions

• Be a good team player and collaborate on Senior or Staff engineers when carrying on complex tasks as well as being independent on less complex tasks

• Ship code to production every day using CI/CD

• Tackle the challenges that come with processing sensitive data

• Learn to build with security in mind

• Make your mark on ambitious projects.

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 are a customer-focused and 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!