Careers

Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails. Our continuing growth in the enterprise messaging security market allows us to offer exciting career opportunities for all levels of employees. Explore our latest email security and data loss prevention career openings below.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin ancestry, age, medical condition, disability, veteran status, marital status, or other prohibited factors under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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Engineering
Engineering - Toronto
Network Operations
Product Marketing

Engineering

Sr. Build/Release Engineer

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior Build/Release Engineer to join its Engineering team. This position will report to the Manager of Engineering Services and will play a critical role within the organization by bringing consistency, reproducibility, and verifiability to the build and release cycle for a variety of Proofpoint products. This person will be responsible for the build services for a variety of releases. They will assist in and add new components to the build, develop release upgrade scripting, and develop and improve tools to automate, monitor, and streamline the build process.

Duties:

Develop and maintain the build infrastructure (Maven, Hudson, make)

Add new components to the build

Acquire and release tools and packages

Improve the build process and infrastructure

Control branching and subversion merges

Requirements:

7-10 years experience, at least 3 years in build/release management
Good experience with Perl
Highly detail-oriented
Good production environment experience
Flexible
Excellent time management skills
Expert scripting ability in sh/bash and perl
Extensive experience with Maven, make, Subversion
Develop upgrade scripts (bash + perl) – nice to have
UI development experience – nice to have

Nice to have:

Knowledge of Hudson

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Sr. Software Engineer

Proofpoint is seeking an experienced Java/JSF Senior Software Engineer to join the Software Development Team. This position is full-time based at our corporate offices in Sunnyvale, and reports to the Engineering Manager. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for design, prototyping, implementation and testing of our next generation software products.

Duties:

Develop advanced applications using J2EE, JSF, JBOSS, HTML, and JavaScript (Ajax) technologies. Design Java components using Java and J2EE design patterns. Exposure to Open Source Technologies is desirable.

Produce high quality production software using industry best practices. Produce excellent, thorough, design and development documentation.

Design logical and physical data models optimized for maximum flexibility per research requirements.

Ability to work well in a team environment interacting with IT developers, administrators, management and engineering.

Work with limited supervision under tight time constraints with changing requirements.

Requirements:

5+ years of Java development experience. J2EE experience is required
3+ years experience with UNIX/Linux
2+ years of experience with JBoss/JBoss Portal/Seam
Hands-on experience with source control & release management systems such as CVS or Subversion
Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
Excellent analytical/organizational skills in concert with superb decision making skills.
BS Computer Science or equivalent

Pluses:

Hands-on experiece with workflow engines
Hands-on experience with Apache/Tomcat
Hands-on experience with MySQL
Test Driven Development(TDD)
Agily development (SCRUM)
Experience in developing SaaS based systems

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Engineering - Toronto

Software Engineer (Toronto)

Proofpoint Email Archiving depends on many independent services that run on a Windows appliance installed in the customer environment. These services integrate with Exchange and Active Directory as well as providing Web UI services to our customers’ employees.

We are looking for a software engineer who can help us extend and enhance any of the wide range of services provided on the Windows appliance.

Duties and Responsibilities:

You will work in a small team developing enhancements to the archiving product in all services on the Windows Appliance including installation, configuration, User Interface, and integration with Exchange and Active Directory.

Requirements:

At least five years using as many of these technologies as possible: Windows Server, .NET, C#, C++, ASP.NET, and XML
Experience building client server applications
Ability to work well in a small, dynamic, disciplined team development environment
Flexibility to change tracks when necessary

Education:

Bonus Points:

Experience with Windows Installers
Experience with Microsoft Exchange development
Exposure to NUnit test environment
Experience with Java, JavaScript, or Ajax
Knowledge of MAPI development
Active Directory or LDAP experience
Knowledge of the Windows Security Model

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Network Operations

Sr. Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

Proofpoint is seeking an experienced UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator to join the Operations team. This position is full-time, based at our corporate offices in Sunnyvale, and reports to the Sr. Director of Operations. The Senior Systems Administrator is responsible for all aspects of the Proofpoint production data center services including servers, operating systems, storage, and supporting systems.

Duties

Manage an international, 24-7/always-on, multi-site infrastructure powering the Proofpoint services.

Design, implement, and operate a scalable and reliable systems infrastructure supporting a fast growth hosted service.

Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting, and reporting for the infrastructure.

Troubleshooting and resolving escalated issues.

Capacity planning for all aspects of the infrastructure.

Developing and maintaining processes, tools, and documentation in support of the production environment.

Participation in an on-call rotation.

Requirements:

Experience running medium to large scale (200+ servers) Linux/UNIX production environments, preferably as part of an online service provider environment.
Strong working knowledge of Linux/UNIX internals and core systems services (DNS, smtp, syslog, etc).
Hands on experience running NetApp NFS and SAN solutions.
Tools development: experience developing systems automation tools (using shell, Ruby, Perl, etc).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Minimum of 7 years administration experience with multiple versions of Linux/UNIX.
Must have very strong scripting and automation skills (bash, Perl, shell, etc.).
Must be strong with systems/configuration management (Puppet, CFEngine, etc.)
Experience with Zimbra administration is a must.

Highly Desired

Experience with open source monitoring and alerting systems (nagios, zenoss, cacti, etc).
Experience with postfix, MySQL, Ajax, Java, Perl, or PHP.
IP network experience: significant experience with switching/routing/security/slb/gslb.
Familiarity with F5 LTM and GTM systems.
Experience with VMware or XEN based virtualization.
BA/BS in Computer Science (or equivalent).

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Product Marketing

Product Marketing Manager

The successful candidate will develop a strategic vision, establish the go-to-market execution plan and support the sales and channel to increase revenue and market share for Proofpoint’s world-class email security products. The individual will be responsible for developing and executing product and solution positioning, pricing and product packaging, with compelling value propositions and significant competitive differentiation that highlight the unique value of Proofpoint’s products. The candidate will also support field and channel sales with training, sales tools, deal support and tactical marketing activities, including product and solution messaging, web site content, trade shows, channel event support and collateral development. This position will work closely with product management, corporate marketing and executive staff.

Responsibilities:

Build and execute successful go-to-market strategies.

Create positioning that is consistent and recognizable across the company and direct the development of key messaging that demonstrates compelling value for customer/prospects and differentiates Proofpoint’s products and solutions from the competition.

Define market segments and develop strategies to penetrate vertical or horizontal markets.

Create compelling pricing and packaging and define optimal pricing/packaging strategies by deployment model, geography and/or vertical market.

Enhance sales and channel productivity by delivering sales support and tools including product/technical training, competitive strategy and analysis, customer and partner presentations, white papers, data sheets, proposal templates, etc.

Provide input to other corporate and product marketing activities such as product release deliverables, product specific support at industry conferences, trade shows, seminars, and sales kickoffs. Work with corporate communications on press releases, media outreach, white papers, and case studies.

Requirements:

Experience with email archiving is a must
Ability to think strategically and delivery tactically
Demonstrated experience in supporting sales teams and channels to increase deal close rates and revenue objectives
Candidate must be able to express ideas, marketing and sales strategy in a compelling manner, build relationships and effectively interface with the sales and channel organization, marketing colleagues, channel partners and customers at all levels.
Ability to identify sales and channel needs and successfully translate those needs into effective tools, training and marketing requirements
Superior verbal/written communication and presentation/training skills
Self-motivated with the ability to perform unsupervised and motivate marketing and sales stakeholders to achieve go-to-market goals
Team player with strong interpersonal/interdepartmental skills
Experience in technology or development of enterprise software or software as a service in product management or sales engineering.
BS/BA or equivalent required, preferably in technical or business concentration; MBA preferred
5+ years direct work experience in product marketing within an enterprise focused software, security or Software-as-a-Service company

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