Software Engineer III

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 The Role Proofpoint is looking for a semi-senior engineer to work on designing, building, and deploying large-scale threat detection services. Our team employs cutting-edge technology to detect, analyze and produce intelligence for the latest threats from sophisticated cyber threat actors. Our detection services are the foundational components which are leveraged across Proofpoint’s cybersecurity product offerings to protect our customers from threats delivered through e-mail, social media and SaaS applications. We are looking for an engineer with technical expertise in multiple domains, internalized critical thinking skills, passion for coding and engineering best practices. We are a fast-paced, high-energy team where you will be given the opportunity to make a significant impact. The team has a solid engineering culture that values the craftsmanship of writing great code, enjoys learning, and solving big problems. Engineers on the team, work up and down the software stack to tackle challenges of scaling, reliability, security and usability for our users.                                                                                 Your day-to-day • Be member of a high-performing team of engineers responsible for building critical threat detection and analysis services • Contribute to develop resilient and scalable components/features and get them integrated into the service • Write custom code or integrate open source technologies and AWS services as needed to find solutions to problems • Contribute innovative ideas for the service to stay ahead of threat actors • Collaborate with teammates and colleagues in partner teams                                                                                 What you bring to the team • 2+ years of experience developing scalable and efficient through some of the following languages: Python, JAVA or GO code. • Unit testing, cloud-native development (K8s), secure development foundations, RESTful APIs • Experience automating service deployments (AWS or others), and test autom…