Sr. Software Engineer

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.

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

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. Protection starts with people. Proofpoint.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform/Infrastructure team, you will be a key contributor in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and automated systems that power containerized deployments and multi‑cloud environments. Your work will focus on enabling developer experience and productivity through robust tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation, while ensuring observability and reliability across our platforms.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform/Infrastructure team, you’ll play a key role in building and maintaining tools that support containerized deployments on Kubernetes and multi‑cloud infrastructure. You’ll work with technologies like Python, Go, Groovy, Terraform, and more to drive automation, observability, and security across our systems. You’ll also collaborate closely with development teams to enhance developer experience by improving tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure practices.

• You have a proven technical background and enjoy working with high‑performance teams.
• You enjoy helping to improve developer productivity and experience by improving the tools and assisting them as needed, as well as an eagerness to learn and pick up new technologies as required.
• You understand the benefits CI/CD brings to modern architecture and can empathize with the challenges of engineers not having one.
• You believe in the model of self‑service and automation and thrive in a fast‑paced and agile environment.

• Solid foundation in systems: deep understanding of system architecture and design principles, with the ability to build scalable, reliable systems and effectively debug issues.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (K8s): deep hands‑on experience managing containerized applications with Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and manifest generation.
• Dev Ops & CI/CD: strong Dev Ops knowledge with hands‑on experience building CI/CD pipelines across application and infrastructure layers and automating deployments.
• Observability expertise: proven experience building and maintaining Grafana dashboards to monitor and visualize system performance.
• Proficient in multi‑cloud environments: hands‑on experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure, including expertise in deploying, managing, and optimizing applications in multi‑cloud environments.

• Proficiency in software development:…