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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
In this role, you will:
- Work as an Engineering Manager responsible for planning, leading, and organizing a team to extend, enhance, and provide engineering support for the wide range of services provided by our service infrastructure.
- Support Proofpoint Archiving Products and provide customer support to help resolve difficult customer issues.
- Design, develop and deliver solutions to customers to help them resolve problems that they are facing in their deployments.
- Work on developing solutions and resolving issues within our products to help improve the overall stability of the archiving system.
- Work closely with our Support organization to understand problem areas in the system and with customers and work on creative solutions to help customers be more productive with our solutions.
- Provide after-hours support when high-profile issues arise.
What you bring to the team:
- Experience Minimum five years industry experience delivering industrial-strength, commercial software with demonstrated technical expertise in an OO language (C#/Java/C++).
- Have a deep sense of building great teams and culture.
- A strong command of advanced OO concepts/methodologies, as well as distributed systems, concurrent programming with threads, high-availability, web services, and complex data architectures.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to find and evaluate solutions to productions issues that are escalated to engineering.
- Experience with integrated software engineering processes (e.g., unit testing, source control, continuous build, etc.).
- Self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to communicate technical concepts well to different audiences.
- Must be a team player and be able to work in an operationally critical, diverse, and dynamic environment.
- Ability to work efficiently under pressure and manage multiple assignments.
- Support of our 24x7 operations by participating in our on-call rotation to help resolve critical issues on production systems.
- University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- Experience with development using Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) to access Microsoft Exchange Server is a plus.
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. #LI-PH1
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!