About Us:

Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple: safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work:

At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values:

Bold in how we dream and innovate

Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities

Accountable for results and best in class outcomes

Visionary in future focused problem-solving

Exceptional in execution and impact

As a Software Engineer on the Capture & Digital Risk team, you will be focused on the back-end systems that power our industry leading products focused on Capture from Enterprise Collaboration Platforms & Compliance. These highly sophisticated systems are responsible for protecting the social channels of some of the largest brands in the world, as well as monitoring the internal and external communications for those same brands.

You will be responsible for fixing bugs and developing tools within our back-end infrastructure. You will also be contributing to new features as you grow into our team and become a core contributor.

Your day-to-day

• Investigating issues and developing fixes where appropriate.

• Working within the engineering team to understand our system and help build for scale.

• Building out tooling to help monitor our production systems to look for issues before they become serious.

• Working within the engineering team to build out test infrastructure.

• Developing new features as we add to our industry-leading solutions.

What you bring to the team

When it comes to hiring, we value attitude and aptitude over number of years of experience with any specific tool or technology. We assume you know how to code; we’re much more interested in how you design and deliver. Having said that, we are generally looking for the following skills and experience.

• Extensive experience delivering code into production cloud applications in a team environment

• Production experience with with any of the following technologies and languages: Python, Golang, Ruby on Rails

• Experience working with secured APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc)

• Cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)

• Solid understanding of the architecture of database-backed web applications, including web process architectures, threading, data models and persistence

• An innate desire to work on difficult problems and learn new systems

• Basic understanding of system administration in a Linux, Apache, MySQL environment

• Understanding of relational databases and knowledge of SQL

• Exposure to the basics of Enterprise-class product development: comfort with process and tools including bug tracking, IDE’s, compilers, debuggers, profilers, version control systems, code coverage tools, automated testing tools, usability

• Intrinsic motivation: you fix things because they are broken and need fixing

• Experience with AI-assisted software engineering is a plus.

Why Proofpoint?

At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits

• Career success on your terms

• Flexible work environment

• Annual wellness and community outreach days

• Always on recognition for your contributions

• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Our Culture:

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone.

We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to accessibility@proofpoint.com.

How to Apply

Interested? Submit your application along with any supporting information- we can’t wait to hear from you!