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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.
The Role
The Sender Security and Authentication Product Group is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (title based on experience) to join our backend team. This team is responsible for collecting data on Email Traffic, Threat Detections, Domain Registrations, IP Addresses, DNS Record, Senders, Suppliers, etc. and using aggregation, algorithms, and machine learning to construct a comprehensive data set to help our customers secure their electronic communications and stop bad actors. We process more than 30-40TB of data per day, and use a combination of parallel processing, large scale aggregation, machine learning, and data warehousing technologies to feed data to analysts, customers, and other Proofpoint products. Identity Defense is undergoing explosive growth, and we need smart, motivated, and creative engineers to help stop scammers, phishers, and other attackers from using identity deception to compromise targets across the internet.
Your day-to-day
Configure and maintain databases and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security in development, test, stage and production environments.
Own and manage uptime and performance SLAs. Essure availability/ recovery with minimal downtime.
Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
Perform scheduled maintenance, support release deployment activities and apply new patches and versions when required.
Work with Development team, guide developers on following best coding practices to write optimal & efficient code.
Writing SQL, including stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers
Complex query analysis and troubleshooting
Fine-tuning queries to be optimal and efficient
This is a remote opportunity
What you bring to the team
Must have a minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited school in an engineering related field.
7+ years software development experience
Must have significant experience with SQL and NoSQL databases; Experience with PostgreSQL highly desired.
Must have experience in high-uptime customer-focused environments
Must have experience developing complex SQL statements and performance tuning
Must have experience maintain and upgrading databases
Proficient software development skills in a “back-end” data processing/server environment highly desirable
Experience leading projects in a technical capacity, including architecture and design as well as developing coding standards highly desired
Experience developing database business continuity, disaster recovery and back up plans
Experience with Agile release methodology.
Good interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively, combined with excellent written and oral communication skills
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-PH1
This posting is anticipated to remain open until November 15th, 2024
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges:
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:
Base Pay Range: 240,640.00 - 330,880.00 USDCalifornia (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:
Base Pay Range: 197,760.00 - 271,920.00 USDAll other cities and states excluding those listed above:
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