Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Threat Intelligence

Proofpoint; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Flexible work environment

Wellness days

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own full-stack development and backend services, with additional responsibility for databases and cloud infrastructure to support Threat Intelligence.

You’ll build and maintain apps using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, manage large PostgreSQL databases, and operate in AWS with CI/CD, observability, and monitoring tooling to ensure reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production or enterprise environments.
• PostgreSQL experience required; equivalent depth with another relational DB is acceptable.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management including EC2, RDS, VPCs and related services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go.
• Own and manage large PostgreSQL databases backing applications and services used by Threat Intelligence, including schema design, queries, migrations, and health monitoring.
• Proactively identify reliability, performance, and correctness issues; improve runbooks, dashboards, alerts, and automation.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

React

Go

PostgreSQL

Tools

AWS

Docker

GitHub Actions

CDK

CloudWatch

Grafana

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own full-stack development and backend services, with additional responsibility for databases and cloud infrastructure to support Threat Intelligence.

You’ll build and maintain apps using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, manage large PostgreSQL databases, and operate in AWS with CI/CD, observability, and monitoring tooling to ensure reliability and performance.