Senior Threat Intelligence Software Engineer-Remote/Hybrid

Proofpoint; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Wellbeing Days

Volunteer Days

Work from Anywhere option

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on engineer to own and deliver full-stack software, including substantial Python services and large PostgreSQL databases, backed by robust AWS infrastructure. You’ll design and optimize data stores, contribute to threat intelligence tooling, and collaborate across engineering teams to strengthen security and reliability.

The role emphasizes proactive problem solving, automation, and scalable CI/CD practices, with a flexible work environment and a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production environments.
• PostgreSQL experience is required.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management experience.
• Experience with FastAPI.
• Experience with ClickHouse or other columnar/analytical datastores.
• Experience working in a security vendor environment.
• Understanding of knowledge graphs and graph databases.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tooling thoughtfully.

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 out 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 when it comes to CI/CD, observability, and monitoring: GitHub Actions, CloudWatch/Grafana, Docker.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

FastAPI

ClickHouse

Graph databases

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Grafana

Docker

CDK

Tools

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Grafana

Docker

CDK

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on engineer to own and deliver full-stack software, including substantial Python services and large PostgreSQL databases, backed by robust AWS infrastructure. You’ll design and optimize data stores, contribute to threat intelligence tooling, and collaborate across engineering teams to strengthen security and reliability.

The role emphasizes proactive problem solving, automation, and scalable CI/CD practices, with a flexible work environment and a strong emphasis on