
Senior Software Engineer
Proofpoint
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Draper • Utah • United States
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Salary
💰 $124,100 - $244,200 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and maintain backend services using Java, Go, and Python
- 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
- Proactively identify problems before they become incidents: Seek out reliability, performance, and correctness issues
- Improve runbooks, dashboards, alert quality, and automation
- Deliver pragmatic solutions across a mix of work: 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
- Collaborate closely with engineers and stakeholders: Communicate clearly in incidents and design discussions
Requirements
- Strong experience building production systems with one or more of Java, Go, Python
- 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
- Team player and effective communicator — able to coordinate during incidents and explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits
- Career success on your terms
- Flexible work environment
- Annual wellness and community outreach days
- Always on recognition for your contributions
- Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
JavaGoPythonproduction systemsroot-cause analysisautomationalgorithmic optimizationsobservabilityincident managementproblem-solving
Soft Skills
operational excellencegood judgmentproactive approachteam playereffective communicatorcollaborationinnovationclear communicationcoordinationurgency