Software Engineering Manager

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.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.Company Overview At Proofpoint, people are at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re customer-focused, collaborative and committed to excellence. Through a culture of diversity, honesty and initiative, we deliver meaningful innovation that helps manage today’s biggest threats. With opportunities in all functions, we offer many exciting reasons to join our team.The Role We are seeking a highly motivated Software Engineering Manager for our Core Detection org, who will be responsible for an engineering team in Argentina, leading development of back-end systems that power our industry leading products focused on email Security.  The ideal candidate will be a highly technical and effective people manager. They will make a highly visible contribution to the product used by many recognized large enterprise companies across the world.  The team in Argentina will work closely with development teams and product management based in our Silicon Valley headquarters to deliver end to end solutions.Your day-to-day Handle hiring, mentoring, work planning, career growth, and performance management.Motivate and inspire the team to achieve excellence in design, implementation, quality and deliver superior product features.Lead day-to-day activities of engineering team using Agile/Scrum methodology.Lead and participate in the requirement gathering, architecture, design and development activities. Oversee the end-to-end delivery of high value, complex software projects, including requirements analysis, development, testing and production support.Assign tasks based on team objectives and priorities, ensuring team members have clearly defined short- and long-term goals.Coordinate with US based engineering teams to deliver end to end solutions for complex software projects.Provide both high level and low-level technical guidance to the team members as appropriate.What you bring to the teamBe both a highly technical and an effective people manager.Significant experience working in a team lead or development lead role.Experience working on mission critical, large enterprise distributed software.Experience coordinating with multiple teams to manage dependencies and timelines. Demonstrate ability to understand and work with complex product architectures and deployments.A track record for delivering high quality, high performance, scalable software.A history of hiring and developing world class Engineers.Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.An energetic and positive attitude.Desirable:Exposure to SaaS-based product delivery.Experience working as part of an agile software development team.Knowledge of cloud services and email technologiesExposure to REST/JSON based APIsWhy Proofpoint We are wholly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a pioneer in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner. We welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #LifeAtPFPT.If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!