Staff Software Engineer - Web Applications

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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 staff s/w engineers in the tool & data science group are responsible for creating, extending and supporting tools for analyzing and presenting a large and disparate set of real-world data to determine what types of threats are affecting our customers.

This job is an opportunity to create mechanisms to better understand how the people that we’re responsible for protecting are being targeted by bad actors across the globe.   With your help, we can advance our state-of-the-art protection mechanisms and keep ahead of an ever-changing threat landscape.

Staff engineers are expected to lead technical group discussions, and to be able to mentor / develop younger engineers.

You will have the opportunity to see directly how the tools you contribute to enable Proofpoint to find, identify, and remediate new threats in the cybersecurity landscape globally.

Your day-to-day 

As a staff engineer, you will work with internal users such as threat analysts, other developers and data scientists to create new tools and extend existing tools which mine data in a variety of formats and network locations to present useful information.

We work with a wide variety of internal users, and this job is hands-on.   So one day you’ll be meeting with a senior threat intelligence researcher to better understand what we need to build in order to better meet those needs.  The next day, you might be writing and releasing code to make some part of our data newly visible to threat analysts.

As you do your work, you’ll have access to the full range of tools that Amazon and other public cloud providers are creating to rapidly analyze and visualize terabytes of complex threat metadata.

You will be expected to own entire projects and applications. Helping to support, optimize, and design for new features, while helping to ensure documentation, monitoring, alerting, and knowledge transfers to the rest of the team.

What you bring to the team

Three over-arching requirements:

• An inquisitive mind with the ability to learn where the data exists in a large and disparate system and what that data means
• The ability to create reliable, tested tools that programmatically turn data into usable information
• The desire and willingness to teach and mentor other developers

Qualifications should include many/most of the following:

• BSCS or greater in relevant technical field with 7 years of experience , or 9+ years experience in a similar role
• 5+ years with writing Javascript code for applications running in a public cloud environment
• Recent hands-on experience with working with Javascript / Typescript / React.  We have other engineers who can help frame out front-ends, but you may still be involved in creating or extending front-ends for your services.
• Recent hands-on experience with at least one NoSQL database (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch) required
• Recent hands-on experience with relational databases and SQL (MariaDB, MySQL, etc.) required
• Recent hands-on experience with AWS serverless computing (including SQS/Lambda pipelines and  Glue/Spark) not required but very helpful
• Willingness and ability to create and extend test frameworks around the code you write to prevent regressions and identify design flaws
• Jest / Mocha / Cypress / Puppeteer/ etc
• Comfortability working from CLI tools in UNIX / LINUX environment

Nice to have:

• Experience with event driven batch workflows and schedulers (Apache Airflow)
• Experience with containers (docker, eks, etc)
• Experience with SSO protocols (saml2, oauth)

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

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!