Staff Software Engineer

  • Cork
  • Proofpoint
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 OverviewProofpoint 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 Staff Software Engineer on the Digital Risk and Compliance team, you will be focused on the back-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 mobile and web presences of many of those same brands. We are looking for someone who is an outstanding team player with a positive attitude, and high energy, to help us deliver state-of-the-art products. Your day-to-day Lead efforts to design, implement software and support systems using industry best-practices Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to identify and implement software solutions to business problems Build automation tooling to help monitor production systems Address customer reported bugs and provide production support Drive usage of best application patterns, technologies, and practices Design highly scalable and resilient applications Mentor team members 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, collaborate, and deliver. Having said that, we are generally looking for the following skills and experience.Extensive experience building consumer-facing software productsProven experience of leading the technical direction for a team of engineersExcellent coding experience with programming languages preferably Golang and RubyUnderstanding of highly distributed architectureExperience working with relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra)Experience working with secured APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc)Cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)Experience working with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana, etc)Understanding of best practices in database design, data architecture, and performance tuningExcellent communication, planning and organizational skillsAbility to mentor others on best practicesWhy 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#LI-CB1If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!