Staff Backend Engineer - Security Platform (Golang/Python)

Darwoft; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 3,200,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Proofpoint is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Unified Detection team to work on back-end systems powering email security products. You will join a global team to design and implement scalable services, collaborating with engineers and business stakeholders to deliver robust solutions.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software, strong Go and Python skills, and deep knowledge of distributed architectures, APIs, cloud platforms, and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• 8+ years of demonstrated experience building critical software products.
• Proficiency in coding in Go and Python; strong distributed architecture understanding.
• Experience with secured APIs (REST, GraphQL).
• Cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana).
• Strong experience working with agile development teams; performance tuning expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to design, implement software and support systems using industry best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to identify and implement software solutions.
• Build automation tooling to 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.

Skills

Excellent communication

Agile development

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Go

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

REST

GraphQL

AWS

GCP

Azure

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

Proofpoint is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Unified Detection team to work on back-end systems powering email security products. You will join a global team to design and implement scalable services, collaborating with engineers and business stakeholders to deliver robust solutions.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software, strong Go and Python skills, and deep knowledge of distributed architectures, APIs, cloud platforms, and observability tools.