Software Engineer II

Overview

In this Software Engineer II role, you contribute to Proofpoint’s Adaptive Email Data Loss Prevention work, focusing on the Microsoft 365 Outlook add-in. You’ll scale services, deepen Microsoft integrations, and help secure sensitive data while collaborating with senior engineers. You’ll ship production-grade code, improve performance and reliability, and enhance user experience across Outlook platforms. This is a security-first, DevOps–driven environment with a strong emphasis on data-driven decisions and measurable impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Flexible work environment
• Annual wellness and community outreach days
• Always on recognition for your contributions
• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Responsibilities

• Improve scalability and reliability of services
• Research and apply security measures against vulnerabilities
• Leverage production data to guide feature work
• Enhance Outlook add-in UX on desktop and web (Windows/macOS)
• Harden the Human Security Layer
• Ship code to production via CI/CD
• Handle sensitive data securely
• Collaborate with senior and staff engineers on complex problems and independently on simpler ones

Key requirements

• Experience building and running production services in Python
• Experience with AWS and with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containers and infrastructure as code
• Good judgement when choosing technical approaches, and a security-first mindset

• Problem-solving mindset
• Data-driven decision making
• Collaborative teamwork
• Python 3
• AWS (SQS, SNS, ECS, ECR, Lambda)
• SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, DynamoDB)

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