Sr. Software Engineer - Remote Eligible

Software Engineer

In today's cyber threat landscape, protection starts with people. At Proofpoint, that simple truth fuels our passion for protecting users, the data they create, and the systems they rely on from a uniquely people-centric perspective.

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—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

About the Team

Proofpoint's Archiving Infrastructure team is looking for a Software Engineer to work remotely out of India, initially remote with a hybrid option for the future.

Proofpoint Email Archiving is a Software as a Service solution that features a distributed grid search and storage infrastructure. This service-based architecture allows us to scale to meet the needs of hundreds of clients that are among the largest businesses in the world.

We are looking for a software engineer with strong development and infrastructure-as-code (IAC) skills, who can help us enhance, automate, and ensure high availability for the wide range of services provided by our product.

You will be a key player in a small team developing enhancements to the archiving product in all areas, including web services, service discovery, RPC communications, application functionality, data management framework, application deployment and scheduling, cloud service integration, and high availability.

Life At Proofpoint As A Sr. Software Engineer

• With the team & product management, define and refine the requirements of new features and redesign of existing features.
• Design, review, and build implementations that leverage software, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and cloud services to extend and/or enhance the functionality of the Archiving product.
• Work with other feature teams to ensure their approaches can integrate cleanly into the product's software and infrastructure frameworks. Create new frameworks, cloud service integrations, and automation to enable this work.
• Help to troubleshoot and resolve difficult production problems that can affect out various customers across multiple regions and accounts during working hours.
• Be available for very limited on-call during critical deployment activities.

Requirements

• Experience building core enterprise products/solutions
• Experience with source control (git) and its best practices. Opinions on branching and merge strategies a plus
• Backend design and development skills in core Java and experience with advanced OO concepts/methodologies
• Experience with distributed systems, service discovery, and RPC
• Experience with containerized services in Kubernetes
• Experience with terraform
• Some Cloud skills: AWS services (S3/ECR/lambda/codepipeline/SSM/IAM)
• Experience with Database programming (MySQL a strong plus)
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with Agile/Scrum
• Flexibility to change approaches and projects when needed
• Previous experience creating security, email, archiving, eDiscovery, and/or storage products is a plus
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

How You Can Stand Out

This role is a blend of traditional software engineering and modern DevOps approaches. While strong traditional development skills are a hard requirement, any extra infrastructure, cloud service, automation, and configuration management skills are a plus. Some of these nice-to-haves include:

• Windows / Powershell / Active directory / IIS / Azure
• Certificate management, workflows, and integrations
• Third-party services: apache, nginx, kafka, opensearch, rds/mysql, sqlite, solr/lucene, dns
• EKS skills: podspecs, helm, scheduling, core-dns, keda, argo, launch templates
• IAC skills: terraform, terragrunt, codepipeline/codebuild, webhooks and pipeline automation
• Scripting skills: python, bash, go

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 driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products—and many exciting reasons to join our team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. We are a diverse, multinational company with opportunities in all functions, and leaders that welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #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.