Sr. Software Engineer (Fullstack)

<p>It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!</p><p></p><p>We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Company Overview<br/> </p><p>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.<br/> </p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>The Role</p><p></p><p>As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on the Digital Risk and Compliance team, you will be focused on the front-end systems that power our industry leading products focused on Social, Mobile and Web security and compliance. These highly sophisticated systems are responsible for protecting the social channels of some of the largest brands in the world, as well as monitoring the web presences of many of those same brands.</p><p>You will be responsible for developing new and improving existing features, as well as  fixing bugs.</p><p></p><p>Your day-to-day </p><ul><li><p>Working within the engineering team as a whole to understand our system</p></li><li><p>Build modern applications with the focus on the scalability and end user experience</p></li><li><p>Investigating issues and developing fixes where appropriate.</p></li><li><p>Collaborating with Product Managers, providing ongoing engineering understanding and feedback on all stages of the new development</p></li><li><p>Collaborating with Customer Support, ensuring the most efficient resolution of customers’ questions and problems</p></li></ul><p></p><p>What you bring to the team</p><p></p><p>When it comes to hiring, we value attitude and aptitude over number of years of experience with any specific tool or technology. We assume you know how to code; we’re much more interested in how you design and deliver. Having said that, we are generally looking for the following skills and experience.</p><p></p><ul><li><p>Extensive experience delivering code into production cloud applications</p></li><li><p>Understanding of relational databases and knowledge of SQL</p></li><li><p>Production experience with JavaScript frameworks</p></li><li><p>Production experience with Ruby on Rails  and React are highly desirable</p></li><li><p>Solid understanding of the architecture of database-backed web applications, including web process architectures, threading, ORMs</p></li><li><p>Basic understanding of system administration in a Linux, Apache, MySQL environment</p></li><li><p>Exposure to the basics of Enterprise-class product development: comfort with process and tools including bug tracking, IDE’s, compilers, debuggers, profilers, version control systems, code coverage tools, automated testing tools, usability</p></li><li><p>An innate desire to work on difficult problems and learn new systems</p></li><li><p>Intrinsic motivation: you fix things because they are broken and need fixing</p></li></ul><p></p><p>Why Proofpoint <br/> </p><p>Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning 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. <br/> </p><p>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</p><p></p><p>#LI-CB1</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!</p>