Jobs at Proofpoint

Build and harden agentic AI applications, runtimes, MCP integrations, evaluation harnesses, and reusable platform capabilities. Establish best practices for prompts, context, memory, planning, observability, guardrails, deployment, and cost-performance tradeoffs. Prototype emerging AI frameworks, evaluate quality and reliability, document patterns, and collaborate with engineers, security researchers, and product leads to enable agentic AI development across the company.

Design and implement a multi-tenant web application for managing Microsoft Azure objects using the ASP.NET MVC stack. Translate stakeholder requirements into maintainable code, apply object-oriented design patterns, collaborate with team members, prioritize sprint tasks, meet deadlines, and support usability from design through user acceptance testing. The role requires web development, AI/ML, Azure, Git, and effective communication skills, along with a portfolio of programming or design work.

Own applied AI research from problem framing through experimentation, evaluation, prototyping, and production deployment. Build agentic systems, evaluation platforms, model-serving solutions, and self-improving workflows across hosted and self-hosted models. Measure quality, cost, reliability, and speed; advise deployment teams; mentor engineers; and improve coding-agent practices.

Manage 10–20 enterprise named accounts, develop account plans, identify expansion opportunities, sell cybersecurity solutions, and drive renewals. Build relationships with executive stakeholders and channel partners, deliver customer business reviews, create complex multiyear proposals, forecast accurately in Salesforce, and coordinate internal and external resources to exceed revenue targets.

Generates qualified sales opportunities for Proofpoint’s DACH enterprise sales team through inbound lead follow-up, outbound prospecting, email and cold-calling campaigns. Researches assigned accounts, gathers competitive and purchase-intent intelligence, qualifies leads, records interactions in Salesforce, and schedules product demonstrations. Collaborates with sales, account management, and marketing teams to execute account-based strategies. Requires fluent German and English, strong communication skills, organization, motivation, and attention to detail.

Manage commercial sales in India by hunting and closing net-new business, building executive and technical relationships, leading complex sales cycles, coordinating sales engineers, product specialists, marketing, and channel partners, developing Salesforce pipelines, accurately forecasting, delivering solution presentations, and achieving quota targets.

Leads technical pre-sales activities for Proofpoint’s cybersecurity solutions, partnering with account managers and customers. Responsibilities include account strategy, technical discovery, product demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, production evaluations, solution design, customer training, and technical presentations. The role requires expertise in enterprise and cloud security, email security, threat detection, DLP, and cybersecurity frameworks, along with strong presentation skills and regular interstate travel.

Build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure; manage Terraform infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, automation, and security controls. The role requires AWS or other cloud expertise, container orchestration, programming ability, networking knowledge, and participation in daytime on-call rotations.

Leads and scales Proofpoint’s Northern Europe BDR organization across UKI, the Nordics, and Benelux. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, outbound strategy, account-based selling, CRM accuracy, pipeline generation, and cross-functional alignment with Sales and Marketing. The role also modernizes prospecting through AI-powered research, personalization, automation, analytics, and data-driven operating processes.

Manage and grow a regional portfolio of cybersecurity accounts in Northeast Germany. Develop new business, expand existing customers, and drive sales through channel partners. Build executive relationships, coordinate sales engineers and internal teams, deliver product demonstrations and proofs of concept, develop account strategies, generate pipeline, maintain forecast accuracy, and position Proofpoint’s security, compliance, and information protection platform.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable threat detection and analysis services. Develop resilient components, integrate open-source technologies and AWS services, automate deployments and testing, and contribute innovative solutions to counter cyber threats. Collaborate across engineering teams while applying secure development practices, unit testing, RESTful APIs, and cloud-native technologies.

Build and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, container platforms, and AWS Glue ETL jobs. Support reliable data ingestion, transformation, analytics infrastructure, and data product delivery while collaborating with data engineering, data science, and security teams.

Provide advanced technical support for Proofpoint cybersecurity products, troubleshooting moderate-to-complex customer issues in Linux environments. Manage support cases within service-level objectives, conduct remote diagnostic sessions, document solutions, create customer communications, publish knowledge-base articles, review technical documentation, and mentor lower-level support engineers. The role requires independent root-cause analysis, email-system debugging, command-line expertise, and strong customer communication.

Provides advanced technical support for Proofpoint cybersecurity products, troubleshooting moderate-to-complex customer issues in Linux command-line environments. Manages support cases within service-level objectives, leads customer troubleshooting sessions, documents solutions, publishes knowledge-base content, communicates alerts, and reviews technical documentation. Serves as a subject matter expert and mentors lower-level support engineers while collaborating with account managers, sales engineers, customer success, and professional services teams.

Leads FP&A for Worldwide Sales, overseeing planning, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount, expenses, commissions, GTM investments, financial modeling, executive reporting, and process improvements. Partners with Sales leadership and cross-functional teams to guide strategic decisions, improve operational efficiency, and support revenue growth. Mentors peers and prepares financial reviews, quarter-end reporting, and board-level presentations.

Generate qualified sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound prospecting for France. Qualify leads, research accounts, gather competitive and purchase-intent intelligence, manage email and cold-calling campaigns, track communications in Salesforce, and schedule product demonstrations. Collaborate with account management, marketing, and commercial sales teams to execute account-based sales strategies. Fluency in French and English is required.

Build and deploy large-scale threat detection services for cybersecurity products. Develop clean, tested, efficient code; own smaller features; participate in code reviews and retrospectives; collaborate with teammates; identify risks and blockers; and contribute to distributed, cloud-based, containerized systems.

Develop the Saudi Arabian territory by hunting new-logo commercial accounts, building pipeline, forecasting, closing sales, and increasing Proofpoint market share. The role involves outbound prospecting, product demonstrations, account strategy development, channel-partner collaboration, and selling to IT leaders and CISOs. Candidates need strong communication, organization, presentation, and sales execution skills, along with fluent Arabic and English and the ability to work in a hybrid environment.

Lead and grow a team of Security Solution Engineers supporting an email security managed service. Oversee platform configuration, backend engineering, service delivery, SLA monitoring, incident escalation, and automation. Drive technical strategy, risk assessment, telemetry-driven improvements, and platform hardening to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure email protection for customers.

Provide proactive technical leadership and support for strategic cybersecurity customers. Manage escalations, incident response, cross-functional resolution efforts, customer meetings, executive presentations, system reviews, integration strategies, risk planning, and process improvements. The role requires strong knowledge of Linux, messaging, networking, cloud services, and enterprise security environments, along with excellent customer communication, crisis leadership, project management, and fluent German.