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

Proofpoint is looking for a Software Engineer to work on our Toronto based Engineering team. Proofpoint Email Archiving is a Software as a Service solution that features a distributed grid search and storage infrastructure. This service-based architecture allows us to scale to meet the needs of hundreds of clients that are among the largest businesses in the world. We are looking for a software engineer to join this leading edge team, to extend and enhance the wide range of services provided by our service infrastructure. You will be a key player in a small team developing enhancements to the archiving product in all areas including web services, application functionality, data management framework and tools

Your day-to-day

• With Product Management, define and refine the requirements of new features and redesign of existing features by the creation of use cases

• Producing innovative and easy-to-use design solutions that address complex concepts and workflows for various features in the archiving system

• Work closely with multi-disciplinary product teams to ensure design meets user needs, product requirements, and technical constraints while ensuring timely delivery of product efforts

• Contribute to and lead the development of various style guides and user experience pattern libraries

What you bring to the team

• Experienced building core enterprise products/solutions

• Design and development skills in Java

• Experience with AWS and AWS technologies.

• Strong analytics background with experience working with different search engines like Lucene/Solr

• Experienced of advanced OO concepts/methodologies

• Strong communication skills

• Experience with Agile/Scrum

• Flexibility to change approaches and projects when needed

• Previous experience creating security, email, archiving, eDiscovery, and/or storage products is a plus

• Experience with Database programming (MySQL a strong plus)

• Experience with distributed systems

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering What make you different from others

• Experience in migrating existing solutions to AWS.

• Experience in rapid prototyping and the steel thread development construct.

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!