Staff Software Engineer

About Us:

Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple: safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work:

At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values: 

Bold in how we dream and innovate

Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities

Accountable for results and best in class outcomes

Visionary in future focused problem-solving

Exceptional in execution and impact

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.

About this role 

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to design and build the next generation cloud and data security solutions. You will develop efficient software to build an internal representation of complex and large cloud infrastructures to analyze risks and vulnerabilities. You will have an opportunity to learn the internals of major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) and put that into action developing product features. You will lead, design and develop features on our scalable microservices based infrastructure for solving data security problems, and deliver using the newest CICD technologies. If you want to be at the forefront of cloud data security and want to work with an excellent engineering team to learn and grow your career, this may be THE opportunity you are looking for. 

Requirements: 

• 4+ years of experience in building applications and services in one of AWS, GCP, and Azure 

• 4+ years of experience in Python or NodeJS is preferred 

• 4+ years of experience in cloud security is preferred 

• 10+ years of experience building system or application software with modern technologies 

• Prior experience building SaaS products is a plus 

• Strong software design, complexity analysis, development and debugging skills 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure, and data security 

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/EECS or similar. Master or Ph.D. degree in CS preferred. 

Our culture encourages and respects people who are hands-on, honest, focused and committed. For this role, it entails: 

• A deep understanding of whatever you are working on 

• An intuitive understanding of ROI for your tasks 

• Taking end-to-end ownership 

• Strong ability to work independently and meet goals/ deadlines with minimal direction/ guidance 

• Being extremely curious and hungry to make an impact 

• Learning quickly, enjoy and taking pride in both identifying and solving problems 

• Cautious confidence in building a product for tech savvy users 

• Moving fast without compromising quality and future ability to scale 

• Keeping things simple 

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 countrie