Staff/Lead Software Engineer (Threat Intelligence)
London, England
Proofpoint
Proofpoint helps protect people, data and brands against cyber attacks. Offering compliance and cybersecurity solutions for email, web, cloud, and more.It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organisations’ 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 organisations 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.
Job Overview
Following the acquisition of Tessian by Proofpoint and having found exceptional product/market fit for our category-defining Human Layer Security software platform, we’re in the midst of transformation and growth and are looking for an experienced Engineer or tech lead to join the Tessian Business Unit of Proofpoint.
You’ll be helping us evolve and improve our “human centric security” platform by leading the technical strategy for the team responsible for checking for threat signals on our customers' emails. This is done using a variety of techniques including machine learning and LLM’s.
Our stack is predominantly python based, using a variety of datastores and runs in AWS.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Partner with product to help define and refine the team’s roadmap
- Work with a cross functional team of Data Scientists, Backend & Frontend Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers and lead on cross-team & cross functional relationships the team needs for success.
- Responsible for technical delivery of their team e.g. ensuring proposals and deliveries use appropriate technologies, that PRs are getting the attention they need, and upskilling their teams.
- Support and help the development of the team, this could be through regular 1-1s, coaching on particular points or working closely to help deliver projects.
- Work closely with the team’s Engineering Manager to support them and provide a more technical perspective. Support the Engineering Manager with understanding the performance, development opportunities and promotion potential of members of the team.
- Be a leader and champion for the technical and operational aspects of the team's stack including driving technical initiatives to improve them.
- Think strategically about the team’s domain and drive technical initiatives towards this
- Design and build reliable distributed systems that handle high volumes of data with low latency
Qualifications/Experience
- Experienced Software Engineer
- Team lead experience or technical leadership (line management experience not required)
- Has deep understanding of cloud technologies
- Enjoys collaboration and working with others
- Can construct good arguments for methodologies and best practices
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation 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
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: AWS Cloud Compliance LLMs Machine Learning Python Strategy Threat intelligence Vulnerabilities
Perks/benefits: Career development Startup environment
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