Sr. Software Engineer, Threat Intelligence
Proofpoint1 day ago
Base Salary
$136k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go.
- Design, optimize, migrate, and maintain large SQL databases supporting Threat Intelligence applications and services.
- Identify reliability, performance, and correctness issues and improve runbooks, dashboards, alerting, automation, observability, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and threat intelligence stakeholders to deliver actionable intelligence capabilities.
- Manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2, networking, SNS/SQS, and CDK.
- Use GitHub Actions, CloudWatch/Grafana, and Docker to support CI/CD and operational visibility.
Requirements
- Substantive production or enterprise experience designing, building, and maintaining Python systems with operational accountability.
- Required experience with PostgreSQL, or equivalent depth with a comparable relational database system.
- Hands-on experience provisioning and operating AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS databases, VPCs, and related services.
- Preferred experience with FastAPI, ClickHouse or other columnar/analytical datastores, high-volume telemetry, security-vendor environments, knowledge graphs, graph databases, CLI/TUI tooling, or Agentic/MCP technologies.
- Experience managing, maintaining, and tuning PostgreSQL databases at scale is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
- Flexible work environment, flexible time off, and a comprehensive well-being program.
- Two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year.
- Three-week Work from Anywhere option.
- Annual wellness and community outreach days, recognition programs, 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.