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 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.The Role We are looking for an experienced performance engineer to join this leading-edge team, to extend and enhance the wide range of services provided by our service infrastructure. The successful candidate will work with developers to test and optimize our products in pre-production and monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in production. This is a technical, hands-on role for someone who is adept at gathering and analysing performance data and finding the root cause of performance bottlenecks. Your day-to-day Collaborate with members of the Engineering team to solve performance problems Profile Java application performance using proven tools and techniques Monitor production performance and investigate issues Develop tools to automate performance monitoring Test and profile new features pre-production to make sure they will scale and perform Build out test labs and environment to mimic production conditions both for performance and scale Work with Engineering groups to help validate architecture/designs to meet product performance requirements What you bring to the team Experienced building core enterprise products/solutions Design and development skills in Java Proficiency with Java, MySql and scripting tools such as Python and Shell scripting Proficiency with Linux and the various tools and techniques used to debug performance problems from the OS all the way up to the highest-level JavaScript Extensive hands-on experience with performance engineering, including the use of JMeter, LoadRunner or similar tools, as well as profiling tools Experience working on teams using agile development techniques Willingness to roll up your sleeves and work hard in a fast-moving startup environment Strong communication skills Experience with distributed systems Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering Why ProofpointProtecting 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! #LifeAtProofpointIf you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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