Manager, Engineering

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 Our team is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative, and technically experienced Engineering Manager with the ability to drive change and make things happen. You will manage an engineering team working on sophisticated systems responsible for protecting the social channels of some of the largest brands in the world, as well as monitoring the mobile and web presence of many of those same brands.Your day-to-day Lead and mentor an experienced team of software developers by providing leadership, guidance and enabling the team to deliver to their full potential.Align the skill and capability of the team with the requirements of the product roadmap.Lead change in seeking out continuous improvements and champion the adoption of best practices in our SDLC.Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, ownership, innovation, trust, and the continuous drive toward excellence to promote teams to be empowered to produce high quality results on schedule.Accountable for maintaining a high standard of product quality and code health.Develop, maintain, and publish project KPI’s that track project quality, delivery, and predictability.Establish regular communication with the team and key stakeholders to provide project status updates.Identify risks, gaps or blind spots in your teams’ resources, skills, tooling, supporting information systems and action to close those gaps.What you bring to the teamProven experience of directly leading software development teamsExtensive previous hands-on software development experience, preferably with Ruby on RailsThorough understanding of Relational Databases (RDBMS) and SQLPrevious experience with JavaScript frameworks highly beneficialA track record for delivering high quality, high performance, and scalable SAAS products.Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deliver on time, on quality and on budget.Solid understanding of SDLC as well as expert knowledge of both agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them as needed.Experience with Project Management tools such as Jira, VersionOne or equivalentSufficient technical background to provide highly credible leadership to technical teams, and to objectively evaluate complex project issues and risks.Excellent communication & organizational skills.Proven ability to facilitate project meetings and follow-ups.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! #LifeAtProofpoint#LI-CB1If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!