Associate 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

We’re looking for several early-career Backend Software Engineers to join the Proofpoint Tessian Engineering Group across multiple core teams. The Tessian product offers inbound threat defence software, via API, to Microsoft or Google e-mail platforms, as well as a data loss prevention (DLP) service that utilises Machine Learning for maximum protection.
 

You’ll join at an exciting time as we scale our services and expand our reach. Expect to collaborate with passionate engineers, work on impactful projects, and be supported every step of the way.
 

We are seeking candidates with similar experience to our tech stack (in particular Python), but don't worry if you don't feel like an exact match. We are always willing to speak to great candidates even if you do not feel you meet every criteria listed! We value potential over ticking boxes.

Our tech stack includes:

• Services built with modern Python

• AWS Cloud Services such as SQS, SNS ECS, ECR, Lambda functions  

• High volume NoSQL and SQL databases such as; Dynamo DB, Postgres  

• Terraform built environments.  

DevOps tools and methodologies such as:  

• CircleCI pipelines management  

• Docker containerization  

• Git and GitHub for software versioning

Your day-to-day

In our Tessian teams, we deeply appreciate DevOps culture, as we build the services, and we run them. Our day to day involves improving services scalability and reliability; researching security vulnerabilities and implementing security measures; and monitoring production environments to discover what is next for the team using product data.  
 

Our research also includes ways to improve user experience when using our products Outlook clients (desktop and OWA) on both Windows and Mac platforms and to help hardening the Human Security Layer.  
 

We also pride ourselves in our commitment to personal growth, so expect to be challenged every day! We have outstanding mentorship, training and guidance to help you fulfil your potential. You will be supported at every step as you grow into these responsibilities.

You’ll Be Expected To

• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.  

• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.  

• Collaborate with supportive senior engineers who value your input, while also taking initiative on tasks that help you grow.

• Ship code to production every day using CI/CD.

• Tackle the challenges that come with processing sensitive data.  

• Learn to build with security in mind.  

• Make your mark on ambitious projects.  
   

Our standards around security, quality, and service availability can only be the highest, but at the same time we foster psychological safety, as we are comfortable with the unknowns and love to experiment to find the right solution, which get things done and keep the eyes on results.  

We use data to validate our decisions, measuring our progress and success. Data informs our decision making, our goals, and our roadmap. We are sure you will love joining us if you share our focus on outcomes rather than outputs and leverage factual evidence to justify your arguments and influence the direction of the team.

The Process
Our process is friendly, supportive, and designed to learn about you — not to trip you up.

• A screening call with one of our Hiring Managers

• A technical conversation, including a small Python coding challenge, with one or two of our Engineers

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!