Sr. Engineering Manager

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  
 As a Senior Engineering Manager focused on infrastructure/platform, you will be leading a highly competent team who are working on helping improve developer productivity and experience. You will help the team set and achieve ambitious goals. You will also help maintain an environment that fosters a culture of creativity, collaboration and data driven decision making.  
  

Your day to day 

We offer flexibility with remote working and office time ensuring a suitable work-life balance for our teams and individual needs. 

• Coach, mentor and challenge smart engineers to achieve their best while growing them professionally 

• Hiring and retaining a diverse best-in-class engineering talent  

• Contribute to improving developer productivity showing belief in the value of continuous improvement and delivery 

• Ship a set of common tools/services that will be help improve the productivity of development teams  

• Help program manage infra projects 

• Work with consumers to understand their needs and challenges 

Your experience 

• 5+ years of experience of leading and managing high-performance engineering teams 

• Delivering core/common applications/platform which have helped scale the organization – paved paths, CI, CD,  

• Helped engineering teams adopt your tools CI/CD, developer portal, etc. 

• Track record of delivering features and functionality on time with high quality 

• Passion for mentoring and coaching engineers 

• Excellent communication skills 

 
Beneficial Experience 

• Experience in devops or platform engineering 

• Experience of AWS/Azure PaaS services and familiarity with that stack  

Our Technology Stack  

• AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Harness CD, cloudbees, Prometheus, splunk, backstage, etc. 

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