Senior Software Engineer

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.The RoleAs a Senior Software Engineer on our latest security product team, you will be building massive-scale systems used by Fortune 100 customers to identify and remediate risks from their most vulnerable trusted parties. This development will include powering production-grade pipelines to handle all our customers' traffic, as well as ensuring these systems can scale as gracefully and economically as possible. This is a uniquely-challenging role: we empower small teams to make large impacts, the scale of our data is legitimately huge, and we're building product that is absolutely mission-critical to our customers 24/7/365.Your day-to-day* Design new system subcomponents and serve as technical lead for new feature enhancements* Build systems that interface with our distributed database infrastructure and incoming streams of threat data making use of tech like Kafka and Flink* Manage complex workflows interacting with multiple distributed systems* Implement secure pipelines that don't lose data and are resilient to system failures* Write automation code that deploys and monitors your systems in the cloud* Evaluate new design & code patterns regularly; learn new techniques and technologies as a result of peer review and mentorship; share what you have learned with your peersWhat you bring to the team* Prior experience with one or more JVM languages: Java, Scala, or similar* Prior experience working with large databases (e.g. planning queries, designing new tables to hold billions of records)* Knowledge of cloud computing platforms like EC2, or similar* Strong conviction to solve critical business problems in an efficient manner, building on your experience in a mature software development lifecycle (SDLC)* Prior experience & a working knowledge with service deployments on Linux* A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experienceIf you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.Base Pay Ranges:SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:Base Pay Range: 157,650.00 - 231,220.00 USDCalifornia (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:Base Pay Range: 129,000.00 - 189,200.00 USDAll other cities and states excluding those listed above:Base Pay Range: 117,600.00 - 172,480.00 USD