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About this role
As the DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Lead, you will drive the development of next-generation cloud and data security solutions. In this role, you will lead a high-performing team while remaining hands-on—designing and implementing tools for deployment, automation, and monitoring to ensure the high availability, security, and performance of our DSPM solutions.
This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of cloud security, collaborating with a world-class engineering team to solve complex challenges. If you’re passionate about scaling secure infrastructure, optimizing performance, and growing your career in an innovative environment, this is the role for you.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in operating services in AWS.
• Strong experience in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native services.
• Experience using observability tools for log management, metrics, alerting etc.
• A good sense of database performance monitoring, building and setting up new infrastructure as code (Terraform, CFT, etc.)
• Working on ways to automate and improve deployment and related processes.
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against threats.
• Identifying technical problems, strong ability to troubleshoot live production issues and developing software updates.
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Our culture values and respects individuals who are hands-on, honest, focused, and committed. In this role, success means:

• Deep expertise in your area of work, with a strong grasp of the details.
• An intuitive sense of ROI, prioritizing tasks that drive meaningful impact.
• End-to-end ownership, seeing projects through from ideation to execution.
• Independence and accountability, delivering results with minimal guidance.
• Relentless curiosity, driven by a desire to learn and make a real impact.
• A problem-solving mindset, taking pride in identifying and resolving challenges.
• Cautious confidence, building products for a highly technical audience.
• A commitment to simplicity, avoiding unnecessary complexity.

This role is for those who thrive in a high-impact, fast-moving environment where ownership and execution matter.

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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 compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges:
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:
Base Pay Range: 194,475.00 - 285,230.00 USD
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:
Base Pay Range: 162,375.00 - 238,150.00 USD
All other cities and states excluding those listed above:
Base Pay Range: 148,425.00 - 217,690.00 US

• Deep expertise in your area of work, with a strong grasp of the details.
• An intuitive sense of ROI, prioritizing tasks that drive meaningful impact.
• End-to-end ownership, seeing projects through from ideation to execution.
• Independence and accountability, delivering results with minimal guidance.
• Relentless curiosity, driven by a desire to learn and make a real impact.
• A problem-solving mindset, taking pride in identifying and resolving challenges.
• Cautious confidence, building products for a highly technical audience.
• A commitment to simplicity, avoiding unnecessary complexity