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Proofpoint Sr. Software Engineer (Fullstack) in Cork, Ireland
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
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
As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on the Digital Risk and Compliance team, you will be focused on the front-end systems that power our industry leading products focused on Social, Mobile and Web security and 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 web presences of many of those same brands.
You will be responsible for developing new and improving existing features, as well as fixing bugs.
Your day-to-day
Working within the engineering team as a whole to understand our system
Build modern applications with the focus on the scalability and end user experience
Investigating issues and developing fixes where appropriate.
Collaborating with Product Managers, providing ongoing engineering understanding and feedback on all stages of the new development
Collaborating with Customer Support, ensuring the most efficient resolution of customers’ questions and problems
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.
Full Stack Engineering (Mainly back-end) for the client-facing applications (Ruby on Rails infrastructure)
Develop, Test, Deploy and Maintain API and API implementations supporting the client-facing UIs for the Digital Risk product.
Develop key orchestration services to manage the client workflow around approvals and other tasks for profiles, posts and other social content coming through the Ingest / Capture / Patrol architecture.
Support and improve the application infrastructure to meet new internal, client and growth requirements, as well as non-functional requirements supporting the reduction of technical debt.
Data Classification Engineering (Data Analysis, Integration, Python Data Engineering)
Develop integrations to leverage Proofpoint AI/ML trained knowledge bases for the classification of data streams from Social Events.
Extensive experience delivering code into production cloud applications
Understanding of relational databases and knowledge of SQL
Production experience with JavaScript frameworks
Production experience with Ruby on Rails and React are highly desirable
Solid understanding of the architecture of database-backed web applications, including web process architectures, threading, ORMs
Basic understanding of system administration in a Linux, Apache, MySQL environment
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
An innate desire to work on difficult problems and learn new systems
Intrinsic motivation: you fix things because they are broken and need fixing
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 a driven-to-win organization 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
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.
To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards
Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.
We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.
Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.
At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:
Build and enhance our proven security platform
Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
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