Senior Agent Development Engineer

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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.

The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Software Engineer skilled in Golang and Linux to join our team. You will play a critical role in building new endpoint Insider Threat Management/Data Loss Prevention (ITM/DLP) functionality for our cutting-edge cybersecurity SaaS product.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust endpoint agents for ITM/DLP solutions within a SaaS cybersecurity platform.
• Optimize agent performance and scalability for diverse environments.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and provide efficient solutions to ensure high performance and reliability of the agent.
• Give input to architecture decisions and lead project deliverables
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including architects, product managers, and other engineers, to define and implement architectural designs and features.
• Contribute to the entire product lifecycle, from concept to deployment and ongoing maintenance.
  
  

What You Bring To The Team

• Proven hands-on development experience with Golang
• Knowledge of Linux operating system internals
• Advanced troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Solid understanding of architectural design principles and best practices.
• Multi-Threading, IPC and Networking experience,
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
  
  

Beneficial

• Experience with programming languages C, C++, Objective-C
• Experience with MacOS and system-level programming is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in agent development for endpoint solutions, particularly in cybersecurity or related fields.
• Familiarity with ITM/DLP or similar cybersecurity technologies is highly desirable.
  
  

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.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

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