Sr. Software Engineer
Proofpoint3 days ago
Belfast, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own significant services and product capabilities through their full lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Design, build, and operate secure, highly available, multi-tenant cloud services and distributed data-processing systems.
- Drive technical delivery from customer or business needs to measurable production outcomes while addressing dependencies, risks, and operational gaps.
- Improve automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, quality gates, rollback mechanisms, observability, and incremental production rollouts.
- Define service-level objectives, metrics, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and operational readiness, and participate in incident response.
- Remain hands-on with implementation, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical validation.
- Provide technical leadership through design documentation, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.
Requirements
- Substantial software engineering experience with demonstrated senior-level impact in complex production environments.
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available distributed systems and data services.
- Ability to independently lead complex technical work, make sound trade-offs, and communicate decisions clearly.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, and orchestration.
- Experience with data modeling, relational databases, performance tuning, and resilient data-processing patterns.
- Practical experience with automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery.
- Strong software design fundamentals, API and integration design skills, and attention to quality, operability, security, and maintainability.
- Clear written and verbal communication and effective collaboration with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and operations partners.
- Experience with Go or a comparable modern backend language and the ability to become productive in Go is desirable.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code technologies, Influx DB, Grafana, Prometheus, service-level objectives, incremental production rollouts, secure software supply-chain practices, and AI-assisted engineering is desirable.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
- Flexible work environment.
- Annual wellness and community outreach days.
- Recognition for contributions and global collaboration and networking opportunities.
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About Proofpoint
Proofpoint builds cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance products that protect email, collaboration tools, and sensitive data for enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its portfolio includes email threat protection, data loss prevention, security awareness training, archiving/governance, and safeguards for SaaS and AI-driven workflows, sold as subscription software and services. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, it is owned by Thoma Bravo, and reports that over 80 of the Fortune 100 use its products.