Sr. Product Security Engineer

Senior Product Security Engineer

About Us: We are the leader in human-centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We're driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. 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. The Role

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Product Security Engineer to lead and advance our product and application security initiatives. This role demands deep technical expertise across all facets of product security and secure software development.

The ideal candidate will be hands-on, strategic, and serve as a security champion across product engineering teams. Based in Cork, Ireland this key role will drive key product and application security initiatives for Proofpoint Product portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Security Leadership: Define and implement product and application security strategies throughout the SDLC
• Security Architecture & Design: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design secure architectures for web, mobile, and cloud-based applications
• Secure Development: Integrate security best practices into CI/CD pipelines, promote secure coding practices, and conduct code reviews and threat modeling sessions
• Security Assessments: Lead and perform penetration testing, static/dynamic code analysis, and security reviews for internally developed and third-party applications
• Tooling & Automation: Develop and maintain automated security testing tools, workflows, and integrations to scale security across product teams
• Security Incident Response: Assist in investigation and remediation of security incidents related to products and applications
• Support Security Compliance Initiatives: Support various Compliance initiatives such as SOC2, ISO27001
• Mentorship & Advocacy: Educate engineers on secure development practices, influence engineering culture, and act as a liaison between security and engineering teams.

What You Bring to the Team

• Extensive experience in Cloud security engineering with a focus on application/product security
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10, secure coding, threat modeling, authentication/authorization, cryptography, and cloud-native application security
• Compliance knowledge to include a thorough grasp of NIST 800-53, and other regulatory frameworks
• Experience with tools like SAST/DAST, SCA, container security, and languages like Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.

Beneficial Experience

• Experience with Data Governance and Securing AI applications desirable
• Certifications: CISSP, CSSLP, GWAPT, or equivalent are a plus

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

Our Culture

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.