Senior Software Engineer, Threat Intelligence

Proofpoint

2h ago • Remote

Senior

Remote

124,100 - 244,200 USD/yr

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Quick Facts

  • Role: Senior Software Engineer, Threat Intelligence

  • Focus: Full-stack development, backend services, database management, and infrastructure

Description

This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role across the full development lifecycle for Threat Intelligence systems. You will build and maintain applications and services, own and optimize large PostgreSQL databases, and improve reliability, performance, and correctness. You will also operate AWS infrastructure and ensure strong CI/CD, observability, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go

  • Own and manage large SQL databases (schema design, query optimization, migrations, operational health)

  • Proactively identify and fix reliability, performance, and correctness issues; improve runbooks, dashboards, alert quality, and automation

  • Collaborate with engineering and threat intelligence stakeholders to deliver actionable intelligence outcomes

  • Manage AWS infrastructure supporting services (VPC, ECS, Aurora/RDS, EC2, networking, SNS/SQS, CDK)

  • Implement best practices for CI/CD, observability, and monitoring (GitHub Actions, CloudWatch/Grafana, Docker)

Requirements

  • Substantive Python experience in production or enterprise environments with real operational accountability

  • PostgreSQL experience required; consider candidates with equivalent depth in a comparable relational database

  • Hands-on AWS infrastructure management experience with EC2, RDS, VPC, and related services

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits

  • Flexible work environment

  • Annual wellness and community outreach days

  • Recognition for contributions

  • Career success on your terms

  • Global collaboration and networking opportunities

  • Work from Anywhere option (three weeks)

  • Flexible time off and well-being program (two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year)

Base Pay Ranges (examples by market)

  • SF Bay Area / NYC Metro: $166,500–$244,200

  • California (excluding SF Bay Area), CO, CT, IL, DC Metro, MD, MA, NJ, TX, WA DC, VA, AK: $136,200–$199,760

  • Other cities/states: $124,100–$182,050

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