Sr. Manager, Engineering

Sr Engineering Manager – Shared Services 

It's fun to work at a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Proofpoint is looking for a Sr Manager of Engineering to join the Shared Services team.  

We are a tight-knit team, focused on building highly efficient services that have a huge impact across all Proofpoint products. If you want to work in a startup-like environment within a fast moving, high-growth security company, then Proofpoint may be right for you. 

We are looking for a Sr Manager of Engineering who possesses a passion for using cutting edge techniques, to continuously improve the product and team, and developing/designing solutions to solve some of the difficult problems working with large and diverse datasets. 

Your day-to-day  

• As a senior leader of the Shared Services team, you will be working closely with highly talented cross functional teams  

• You will be responsible for overseeing various engineering projects, processes, planning, hiring. 

• Serve as an engineering leader who owns end-to-end technical solutions. 

• Lead the design and architecture for new features and improvements to the existing solution in production. 

• Lead architecture reviews, identify risks and advocate for simplicity of design. You do not hesitate to jump into code reviews when necessary. 

• Mentor junior engineers in the team, recommend suitable technologies, advocate for engineering best practices  

• You will work with various stakeholders across the company to build a solid platform for Proofpoint. 

• Ensure that customer and production issues are resolved quickly. 

• Maintain a high standard for engineering practices within the team. 

• This position is a hands-on position

What you bring to the team 

• BS degree or above in Computer Science  

• 15+ years of experience in large scale software development with 7+ years of managing engineering teams 

• Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to motivate teams 

• Ability to attract talent and hire great software engineers, build collaborative teams 

• Experience growing people and engineering teams and possess a can-do attitude with an entrepreneurial mindset 

• Collaborate well with product, program and other cross functional teams. 

• Knowledge of building large-scale services with high availability and reliability 

• Recent experience in Authentication and Authorization related protocols and standards such as OIDC, OAuth2, SAML 

• Knowledge of Active Directory/ Azure /Okta is a plus 

• Thorough knowledge of SQL and NoSql databases. MySQL and Cassandra preferred. 

•  Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, alongside proficiency in orchestration tools like Kubernetes, enabling the deployment and management of containerized applications at scale. 

• Previous hands-on experience writing - clean, elegant code in one or more languages including Java 

• Experience working with multiple databases 

• Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency. 

• Deployed many products in the AWS platform leveraging suitable technologies. 

• Strong problem-solving skills with entrepreneurial attitude.  

• Have built systems at scale in the past and is very comfortable dealing with hundreds of millions of requests.  

• In-depth understanding of running production service with 24/7 support, monitoring.  

• Excellent communication skills   

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 are a customer-focused and driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products and many exciting reasons to join our team. We believe in hiring the best and the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. We are a diverse, multinational company with opportunities in all functions and leaders that welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #LifeAtPFPT.  #LI-AN1