Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Threat Intelligence — Hybrid & Impactful

Proofpoint; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own full-stack development and database/infrastructure support for the Threat Intelligence teams. You’ll build with Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, manage PostgreSQL databases, and help optimize AWS infrastructure.

This role emphasizes reliability, CI/CD, observability, and collaboration with security stakeholders. Proofpoint offers competitive compensation and flexible work options.

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production or enterprise environments — engineers who have designed, built, and maintained Python systems with real operational accountability.
• PostgreSQL experience is required and depth with a relational database is essential.
• Hands‑on AWS infrastructure management experience, including provisioning and operating 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 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 issues; improve runbooks, dashboards, alert quality, 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 configuration, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2, Networking, SNS/SQS, CDK).
• Adhere to best practices for CI/CD, observability, and monitoring (GitHub Actions, CloudWatch/Grafana, Docker).

Skills

Python production experience

PostgreSQL

AWS management

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Docker

CDK

GitHub Actions

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own full-stack development and database/infrastructure support for the Threat Intelligence teams. You’ll build with Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, manage PostgreSQL databases, and help optimize AWS infrastructure.

This role emphasizes reliability, CI/CD, observability, and collaboration with security stakeholders. Proofpoint offers competitive compensation and flexible work options.