Sr. Software Engineer
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Occupation Type
Programmers and software development professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£54,700
(£28.05 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
About Us
Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
How We Work
At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values
Bold in how we dream and innovate
Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities
Accountable for results and best in class outcomes
Visionary in future focused problem-solving
Exceptional in execution and impact
Sr. Software Engineer — Job Description
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer
Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
How We Work
At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values
Bold in how we dream and innovate
Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities
Accountable for results and best in class outcomes
Visionary in future focused problem-solving
Exceptional in execution and impact
Sr. Software Engineer — Job Description
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer
to build, operate, and continuously improve backend services and detection capabilities in a production environment. You will work across the full lifecycle—design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response—bringing strong engineering fundamentals, operational ownership, and an innovative mindset (including comfort applying AI-assisted approaches) to improve reliability and detection outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services using Java, Go, and Python, selecting the right tool/language for the job.
- Own operational excellence for your services
- Participate in an on-call rotation and handle escalations with urgency and good judgment.
- Diagnose complex production issues, drive mitigation, and lead root-cause analysis and follow-ups.
- Observability & monitoring
- Use and improve alerting/monitoring with PagerDuty, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Experience with Coralogix is a strong plus.
- Proactively identify problems before they become incidents
- Seek out reliability, performance, and correctness issues.
- Improve runbooks, dashboards, alert quality, and automation.
- Comfortable taking on sometimes “boring” but necessary projects (maintenance, migrations, refactors, operational hardening).
- Bring an innovative spirit—especially around detection solutions and smarter ways to surface/triage issues.
- Communicate clearly in incidents and design discussions.
- Contribute to a culture of learning, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.
- Strong experience building production systems with one or more of Java, Go, Python (comfort working across multiple languages preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to operate services in production, including on-call and escalation handling.
- Hungry for new knowledge, innovation, architectural and algorithmic optimizations
- Hands-on familiarity with modern observability stacks such as
- Prometheus (metrics), Grafana (dashboards), and PagerDuty (incident management).
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to finding and addressing issues.
- Experience with Coralogix (logging/observability).
- Experience building or improving detection systems (signal extraction, alerting logic, triage workflows).
- Comfort using AI-assisted tooling thoughtfully (e.g., to accelerate investigation, automation, or detection logic), with good engineering judgment.
- Being part of the dynamic team that stops malware/phish attacks and protects our customers in most effective way.
- Services are reliable, observable, and well-operated, with fewer repeat incidents over time.
- You consistently reduce toil through automation and better monitoring.
- You help the team move faster by being both technically strong and collaborative, taking ownership of ambiguous problems and driving them to closure.
At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us
- Competitive compensation
Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone.
We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to accessibility@proofpoint.com.
How To Apply
Interested? Submit your application along with any supporting information- we can’t wait to hear from you!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range 166,500.00 - 244,200.00 USD
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska
Base Pay Range 136,200.00 - 199,760.00 USD
All other cities and states excluding those listed above
Base Pay Range 124,100.00 - 182,050.00 USD
Base Pay Range 166,500.00 - 244,200.00 USD
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska
Base Pay Range 136,200.00 - 199,760.00 USD
All other cities and states excluding those listed above
Base Pay Range 124,100.00 - 182,050.00 USD