Senior Software Engineer (Threat Intelligence)

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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.  

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 Senior Engineer to join the Tessian Business Unit of Proofpoint.

You’ll be helping us evolve and improve our “human centric security” platform. From deploying data science models in production to integrating with our front end, you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business. Our mission critical product and high volumes of data mean you will have many challenging problems to solve. 

You'll be surrounded by incredibly smart, talented and friendly colleagues. Engineers at Tessian love to learn from each other and pull together as a team to succeed. 

Responsibilities and Duties 

Our stack is predominantly python based, using a variety of datastores and runs in AWS. Role and responsibilities of the job include: 

• Design and build reliable distributed systems that handle high volumes of data with low latency 
• Work with a cross functional team of Data Scientists, Backend & Frontend Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers 
• Maintain and support business-critical systems 
• Ship code to production using CI/CD 
• Tackle the challenges that come with processing highly sensitive data 
• Build software with security in mind 
• Make your mark on ambitious projects 

Qualifications/Experience 

• Experienced Software Engineer
• Worked in the past on a fast moving team with focus on delivering value  
• Has a strong product mindset, capable of not only delivering impact within their team but also elevating the wider engineering organisation 
• Is metric driven and considers quality upfront 
• Experience building scalable systems 
• Previous experience with event driven, distributed systems  
• Enjoys collaboration and working with others 

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!