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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organisations’ 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 organisations 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

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Tessian Gateway team. This team oversees the development of a key customer integration, a Mail Transfer Agent that processes inbound and outbound emails, or email gateway.

The Tessian Gateway server is highly optimised for secure email traffic and integrates with M365, G-Suite and Exchange Server, for both inbound and outbound traffic. It currently serves millions of inbound, outbound and journal email transactions, every day, across the world.

You will be joining at an exciting time, as the team prepares to furtherly scale the Tessian Gateway following the Proofpoint acquisition. We are also looking to transition to a new multi-tenant architecture, and to integrate deeper with the Proofpoint ecosystem.

Your day-to-day

In our Gateway Team, we deeply appreciate DevOps culture, as we build the Gateway and we run it. Our day to day involves developing the gateway for scale; researching and implementing security measures; and monitoring production environments to discover what’s next for the team using product data.

You’ll be expected to:

• Design and build reliable distributed systems that handle volumes of data with low latency.

• Maintain and support business-critical systems where scale and latency are front-of-mind.

• Ship code to production every day using CI/CD.

• Tackle the challenges that come with processing highly sensitive data.

• Learn to build with security in mind.

• Make your mark on ambitious projects

What you bring to the team

Operating a mail transport agent, or email gateway, is an interesting challenge with significant technical complexity, especially when considering the scale of our traffic and our security guarantees.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience with NodeJS for backend development

• Experience with TypeScript

• Extensive experience with AWS and related services (Lambda/ECS)

• Experience with Docker for creating and deploying containers

Beneficial Experience

• High volume NoSQL databases

• Terraform built environments

• SMTP protocol, network interfaces

• Previous experience with Python

• Experience working with data and infrastructure at scale

We use data to validate our decisions, measuring our progress and success. Data informs our decision making, our goals, and our roadmap. We are sure you’ll love joining us if you share our focus on outcomes rather than outputs, and leverage factual evidence to justify your arguments and influence the direction of the team.

Why 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 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

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!