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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’s Security Products Group is looking for a thriving engineer to work on designing, building, and deploying large-scale threat detection platform.
Our team develops the next generation distributed pipeline to detect, analyze and produce intelligence for the latest cyberattacks from sophisticated threat actors. Our detection services are the foundational components which are leveraged across Proofpoint’s cybersecurity product offerings to protect our customers from threats delivered through email, social media, and SaaS applications.
We are a fast-paced, high-energy team where you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact. Our team values a strong engineering culture that emphasizes the craftsmanship of writing maintainable code, continuous learning, and solving big problems. Engineers on our team work across the software stack to address challenges related to scalability, reliability, and testability.

Your day-to-day

• Be an integral member of our engineering team responsible for building critical threat-hunting and detection services.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for implementation, deployment, and onboarding of new features and services
• Write code and integrate open-source technologies as needed to solve complex challenges
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the team’s capacity
• Contribute innovative ideas to stay ahead of threat actors and continuously improve the engineering team
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, threat analysts, product managers and other engineers to deliver projects

What you bring to the team

• Extensive experience building compute-intensive and high-volume services
• Proven hands on Java development experience within a collaborative engineering team
• Coding experience with both OO and scripting languages (Java, Go, Python)
• Motivation and growth mindset to learn new technologies and domains
• A positive, can-do attitude and a passion for excellence in the workplace
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Nice to Have

• BSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Knowledge of cybersecurity domain, threat detection engineering or malware sandboxing are a bonus

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

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