Semi‑Senior Software Engineer – Threat Detection (Python/Go/Java)

Skydropx - Frenet; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness and community outreach

Global collaboration opportunities

Job summary

Proofpoint is looking for a semi-senior engineer to design, build, and deploy large‑scale threat detection services. You will work on detecting threats across email, social media, and SaaS applications with a fast-paced team focused on reliability and security.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of coding experience in Python/Java/Go, cloud-native development, and a drive to learn. You will help evolve scalable services and collaborate across teams to protect customers from advanced threats.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience developing scalable and efficient code in Python, Java or Go.
• Unit testing, cloud-native development (K8s), secure development foundations, RESTful APIs.
• Experience automating service deployments (AWS or others), and test automation.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, malware analysis, threat detection is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Be member of a high‑performing team of engineers responsible for building critical threat detection and analysis services.
• Contribute to develop resilient and scalable components/features and get them integrated into the service.
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies and AWS services as needed to find solutions to problems.
• Contribute innovative ideas for the service to stay ahead of threat actors.
• Collaborate with teammates and colleagues in partner teams.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Unit testing

Cloud-native (Kubernetes)

RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Open source integrations

Job description

Proofpoint is looking for a semi-senior engineer to design, build, and deploy large‑scale threat detection services. You will work on detecting threats across email, social media, and SaaS applications with a fast-paced team focused on reliability and security.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of coding experience in Python/Java/Go, cloud-native development, and a drive to learn. You will help evolve scalable services and collaborate across teams to protect customers from advanced threats.