Senior Threat Intelligence Full-Stack Engineer

Proofpoint; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness and community outreach

Recognition for contributions

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting people, data, and AI workflows across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. We are seeking a hands-on, high-autonomy engineer to own full-stack development, database management, and AWS infrastructure to support Threat Intelligence.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver reliable, scalable services, design schemas, optimize queries, and strengthen detection capabilities, while following best-practices for CI/CD and

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production or enterprise environments.
• PostgreSQL experience is required; strong relational DB skills.
• 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 SQL databases backing applications and services used by Threat Intelligence.
• Identify reliability, performance, and correctness issues and improve runbooks, dashboards, and automation.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and threat intelligence stakeholders to deliver actionable intelligence.
• Manage AWS infrastructure for the team’s services, including VPC, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2, Networking, SQS/SNS, CDK.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

FastAPI

ClickHouse

Graph databases

Tools

EC2

RDS

VPC

CloudWatch

Grafana

Docker

CDK

Job description

Proofpoint is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting people, data, and AI workflows across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. We are seeking a hands-on, high-autonomy engineer to own full-stack development, database management, and AWS infrastructure to support Threat Intelligence.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver reliable, scalable services, design schemas, optimize queries, and strengthen detection capabilities, while following best-practices for CI/CD and