Senior Threat Intelligence Software Engineer

Proofpoint; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Wellness and community days

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own full-stack development and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, with responsibility for large PostgreSQL databases and AWS infrastructure.

You will collaborate with the Threat Intelligence team to deliver actionable intelligence and follow best practices for CI/CD, observability, and monitoring, while contributing to a security-driven vendor environment.

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production or enterprise environments.
• PostgreSQL experience is required.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management experience.

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; 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

PostgreSQL

AWS

TypeScript

Go

React

CI/CD

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS CDK

CloudWatch

Grafana

ECS

Aurora/RDS

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own full-stack development and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, with responsibility for large PostgreSQL databases and AWS infrastructure.

You will collaborate with the Threat Intelligence team to deliver actionable intelligence and follow best practices for CI/CD, observability, and monitoring, while contributing to a security-driven vendor environment.