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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.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
Job Description
With the acquisition of Tessian by Proofpoint we're looking forward to rapidly expanding our customer base. This will result in a 10-30x increase in our traffic. We're looking for people that will help us manage that growth.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team of Data Engineers and Backend Engineers to build out infrastructure, data pipelines and products. We view this role as a hugely impactful, high-leverage role since data is the core asset of our company. By building the needed tools and infrastructure you'll be enabling our data science and feature development teams to build better products and deliver more value to our clients through the data breaches we prevent.
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable and efficient data pipelines which can collect and transform our raw email datasets
- Support and maintain or existing data infrastructure
- Effectively collaborate with other teams within the company (MLOps, platform and feature development teams)
- Building feature processing pipelines which can be used to create and test new features as part of machine learning experiments
- Developing a clear understanding of our data platform cost and propose solutions to optimize it.
Qualifications
- Deep understanding of data processing and storage technologies (S3, Kafka, Spark, EMR, OpenSearch, etc.)
- Experience in working with distributed systems with high data volumes.
- Knowledge of at least one programming language (preferably Python)
- Team player and effective communicator
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of 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
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Top Skills
What We Do
We provide the most effective cybersecurity and compliance solutions to protect people on every channel including email, the web, the cloud, and social media.
