Staff Web Software Engineer, Full-time Job

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

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.

Staff Web Software Engineer – Web Platform

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

At Proofpoint, you will find an environment where innovation comes from creative collaboration and where everyone is empowered to go fast and have fun. If you find joy in making the impossible possible you will feel right at home with our team! The People Protection Group is the core of Proofpoint’s success, and you will be contributing to our efforts to do what we do, even better. If you are excited about delivering high performance scalable solutions that protects Fortune 500 companies and stops the bad guys, this is the place for you.

As a Staff Web Software Engineer on our Web Platform group, you will be building and maintaining the core technologies used to deliver user interfaces across Proofpoint’s products. This development will include designing and building out libraries, specifying code design patterns and implementing toolchains to accelerate our UI development across the company. This is a uniquely-challenging role we empower small teams to make large impacts, the scale of our data is legitimately huge, and we're building product that is absolutely mission-critical to our customers 24/7/365.

Your day-to-day

Own and maintain our primary shared UI library and toolkit, which is utilized across the company

Consult with teams across multiple organizations to both solicit feedback and evangelize our shared solutions

Select systems and technologies to enable us to solve common problems within our shared UI codebase

Write automation code that deploys and monitors your systems in the cloud

Evaluate new design & code patterns regularly; learn new techniques and technologies; share what you have learned with your peers

Mentoring engineers across the company as they learn to adopt our platform

What You Bring To The Team

8+ years of meaningful hands-on engineering experience developing large scale systems using JavaScript, TypeScript or similar

Direct hands-on experience with and deep knowledge of React

Deep understanding of MFE architectures.

Strong understanding of the dynamics of source management on shared UI projects, experience with monorepos/NX is a plus

Experience working with multiple teams, managing stakeholders, and building consensus across them

Excellent communication and leadership skills

A pro-active attitude and a willingness to move forward through uncertainty

Cloud-native development, automating deployments, familiarity of container systems.

Experience with multiple UI deployment models

Experience with one or more UI back-ends (Rails, Swing, Node, etc) is a plus

Strong debugging skills.

AWS experience a plus

Strong conviction to solve critical business problems in an efficient manner, building on your experience in a mature software development lifecycle (SDLC)

A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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 pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range 189,750.00 - 278,300.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska

Base Pay Range 158,400.00 - 232,320.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above

Base Pay Range 144,825.00 - 212,410.00 USD