Software Engineer III

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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

As a Software Engineer on our latest security product team, you will be building massive-scale systems used by Fortune 100 customers to protect their business-critical communications. This development will include powering production-grade pipelines to handle all our customers' traffic, as well as ensuring these systems can scale as gracefully and economically as possible. This is a uniquely challenging role: we empower small teams to make large impacts, the scale of our data is legitimately huge, and we're building product that is mission-critical to our customers 24/7/365.

Your day-to-day

• Build systems that interface with our distributed database infrastructure and incoming streams of threat data making use of tech like Kafka, Spark, and Flink

• Manage complex workflows interacting with multiple distributed systems

• Implement secure pipelines that don't lose data and are resilient to system failures

• Write automation code that deploys and monitors your systems in the cloud

• Evaluate new design & code patterns regularly; learn new techniques and technologies as a result of peer review and mentorship; share what you have learned with your peers

What you bring to the team

• Prior experience with one or more JVM languages: Java, Scala, or similar

• Prior experience working with large databases (e.g. planning queries, designing new tables to hold billions of records)

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms like EC2, or similar

• Strong conviction to solve critical business problems in an efficient manner, building on your experience in a mature software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Prior experience & a working knowledge with service deployments on Linux

• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  
  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

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