Remote Senior Threat Intelligence Full-Stack Engineer

Proofpoint; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Global collaboration

Wellness days

Job summary

Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity seeking a hands-on software engineer. The role focuses on full-stack development with Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, plus ownership of large SQL databases supporting Threat Intelligence.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions and help manage AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong Python production experience in enterprise environments.
• PostgreSQL experience is required.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go.
• Own and manage large SQL databases backing applications and services for Threat Intelligence.
• Identify and address reliability, performance, and correctness issues; improve runbooks and dashboards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and threat intelligence stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Maintain AWS infrastructure including EC2, RDS, VPC, and related services; manage CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Adhere to observability and monitoring practices using CloudWatch and Grafana; use Docker where appropriate.

Skills

Python production experience

PostgreSQL experience

AWS infrastructure management

FastAPI

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

CDK

Job description

Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity seeking a hands-on software engineer. The role focuses on full-stack development with Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, plus ownership of large SQL databases supporting Threat Intelligence.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions and help manage AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability tooling.