Software Engineer

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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. Proofpoint.
The Role

Our Engineers are designing and developing our market leading security training and assessment software. Our goal is to help organizations teach their employees secure behavior through interactive web applications, received and managed by our customers on our proprietary SaaS platform. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic to work with cutting edge technologies in a fast-paced environment supporting a global SaaS product. As a Software Developer you will lend your skill-sets to help lead design and implementation of a key customer facing component that has high visibility and value within the organization.

Your day to day

• Work with others on the system design and delivery of a scalable, secure and supportable enterprise software solutions for our customer facing platforms

• Participate in our agile work flow process, including concept development, architectural design, design specification, story decomposition, planning, executing, testing, acceptance, and retrospection

What you bring to the team

• 5+ years’ work experience with JAVA or C#

• 5+ years’ work experience with any scripting/functional/compiler language like Python/Elixir or Go

• 5+ years’ experience designing, developing, and supporting applications in a cloud environment

• BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field

• Solid understanding of CI/CD and working with tools like Jenkins or similar

• Experience writing both component integration tests as well as end-to-end acceptance tests

• Solid understanding of Restful web service architecture

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to manage deadlines and work effectively under pressure
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
 

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

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 128,940.00 - 202,620.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 106,750.00 - 167,750.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 96,320.00 - 151,360.00 USD