Threat Intelligence Full-Stack Engineer — Senior

Proofpoint; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Career success on your terms

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness and community outreach

Recognition for contributions

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own core development across the full lifecycle. You will build full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, while managing large PostgreSQL databases and cloud infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate with Threat Intelligence stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable solutions and improve runbooks, dashboards, and automation within a robust AWS environment.

Qualifications

• Substantive Python experience in production or enterprise environments.
• PostgreSQL experience is required. Depth with a relational DB is essential.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure management experience, including provisioning and operating resources.

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 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, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2, Networking, SNS/SQS, CDK).
• Adhere to CI/CD, observability, and monitoring best practices (GitHub Actions, CloudWatch/Grafana, Docker).

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

FastAPI

ClickHouse

Graph databases

AI tooling

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Grafana

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a hands-on software engineer to own core development across the full lifecycle. You will build full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go, while managing large PostgreSQL databases and cloud infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate with Threat Intelligence stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable solutions and improve runbooks, dashboards, and automation within a robust AWS environment.