Senior Threat Intelligence Full-Stack Engineer (Python/Go)

Proofpoint; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness days

Global collaboration opportunities

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking an experienced software engineer to own full-stack development and backend services critical to Threat Intelligence. You will build scalable Python systems, manage large PostgreSQL databases, and oversee AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with security engineering teams, contribute to CI/CD practices, and enhance observability with monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production environments with operational accountability.
• PostgreSQL experience is required; depth with a relational database is essential.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management including EC2, RDS, VPCs and related services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain full-stack apps and backend services using Python, TS, React and Go.
• Own and manage large SQL databases backing applications used by Threat Intelligence.
• Identify reliability, performance, and correctness issues and improve runbooks and dashboards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and threat intel stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Help manage AWS infrastructure including VPC, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2 and networking.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

FastAPI

ClickHouse

Graph databases

AI tooling

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Grafana

CDK

ECS

Aurora/RDS

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking an experienced software engineer to own full-stack development and backend services critical to Threat Intelligence. You will build scalable Python systems, manage large PostgreSQL databases, and oversee AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with security engineering teams, contribute to CI/CD practices, and enhance observability with monitoring tools.