Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Threat Intelligence (AWS/Python)

Proofpoint; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Wellness days

Recognition program

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint is a global leader in cybersecurity, seeking a hands-on engineer to build full-stack applications and manage large PostgreSQL-backed systems for Threat Intelligence. You’ll work with Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, while maintaining AWS infrastructure and collaborating with security-focused teams.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and proactive problem solving within a flexible, hybrid work environment. Experience with CI/CD and observability is valued.

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production environments.
• PostgreSQL experience is required.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management experience, including provisioning and operating resources such as EC2, VPCs, RDS, and related services.

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 used by the Threat Intelligence team, including schema design, query optimization, migrations, and operational health.
• Proactively identify problems before they become incidents; seek reliability, performance, and correctness improvements across runbooks, dashboards and automation.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams and threat intelligence stakeholders to deliver outcomes that strengthen the team’s ability to produce actionable intelligence.
• Help manage and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting the team’s services (VPC, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2, Networking, SNS/SQS, CDK).
• Adhere to CI/CD, observability, and monitoring best practices using GitHub Actions, CloudWatch, and Grafana.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

React

Go

Full-stack development

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Docker

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Grafana

CDK

Aurora/RDS

Job description

Proofpoint is a global leader in cybersecurity, seeking a hands-on engineer to build full-stack applications and manage large PostgreSQL-backed systems for Threat Intelligence. You’ll work with Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, while maintaining AWS infrastructure and collaborating with security-focused teams.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and proactive problem solving within a flexible, hybrid work environment. Experience with CI/CD and observability is valued.