Proofpoint Careers http://www.proofpoint.com/company/careers.php List of Proofpoint Careers en Copyright 2008, Proofpoint Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:33:17 +0000 info@atre.net info@proofpoint.com Field Sales Engineer — EMEA Proofpoint is looking for a self-starting, responsible, mature, highly-motivated sales engineer who can work well with a team of sales account executives and sales engineers, as well as individually with customers, partners and remote colleagues. The role will demand interaction with large scale enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT organization. The successful candidate will have sound technical experience and skills, blended with strong interpersonal and presentational skills. They must be able to take responsibility and accept accountability for successful customer engagements and partner technical relationships. This is a remote field position, located in the EMEA region.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct in-person and remote product demonstrations in conjunction with an assigned Sales Account Executive to present the technical value proposition
  • Conduct in-person and remote Channel training for resell partners in the region
  • Engage with the customer as the technical lead throughout the pre-sales evaluation cycle to ensure success
  • Technical pre-sales support for direct and channel sales teams
  • Support Proofpoint seminars and trade shows
  • Engage with newly signed enterprise customers as a Proofpoint product expert to implement Proofpoint solutions at their sites. Implementation activities include installation, configuration, troubleshooting, customization, testing, and documentation.
  • Provide technical expertise and real-life experience in creating solutions, designs, proof of concept and implementation
  • Drive high levels of customer satisfaction
  • Be a strong voice for your customers into the Marketing and Engineering teams to improve the product and ensure that Proofpoint deployments successful.
  • Coordinate with multiple parties -- internal departments as well as the customer -- to ensure timely and satisfactory resolution to technical issues, and completion of projects

Requirements:

  • 4+ years industry experience in sales engineering
  • Technical background in messaging and internet security
  • UNIX system administration experience
  • A thorough understanding of Internet protocols and how they work (HTTP, SMTP, etc)
  • Knowledge of networking topology, TCP/IP protocol, network configuration and components (firewalls, routers, etc.)
  • Prior experience in selling software to Federal clients as well as Fortune 500 or other large companies
  • Must have a good understanding of the sales process and the roles and responsibilities of a sales engineer
  • Strong technical presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written in English (Candidates with proficiency in other European languages, notably French, German and Dutch are preferred)
  • Ability to present and explain technology to people with less technical knowledge
  • Must be able to thrive in a fast paced, high stress start up environment
  • Ability to work independently, ability to adapt quickly, positive attitude
  • BSCS or equivalent
  • Ability to travel 25-75%


    • Desired:

  • Experience in working in a remote office
  • Knowledge of Perl, SQL databases, Apache, HTTP and LDAP
  • Firm understanding of SMTP, IMAP, POP3, and RFC822
  • Experience administering and deploying large scale messaging and LDAP directory infrastructure systems
  • Experience selling to network security engineers and/or messaging administrators
  • Experience in enterprise messaging security
  • A background in Professional Services
  • Candidates located in UK, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland preferred

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]]> Proofpoint is looking for a self-starting, responsible, mature, highly-motivated sales engineer who can work well with a team of sales account executives and sales engineers, as well as individually with customers, partners and remote colleagues. The role will demand interaction with large scale enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT organization. The successful candidate will have sound technical experience and skills, blended with strong interpersonal and presentational skills. They must be able to take responsibility and accept accountability for successful customer engagements and partner technical relationships. This is a remote field position, located in the EMEA region. Responsibilities: Conduct in-person and remote product demonstrations in conjunction with an assigned Sales Account Executive to present the technical value proposition Conduct in-person and remote Channel training for resell partners in the region Engage with the customer as the technical lead throughout the pre-sales evaluation cycle to ensure success Technical pre-sales support for direct and channel sales teams Support Proofpoint seminars and trade shows Engage with newly signed enterprise customers as a Proofpoint product expert to implement Proofpoint solutions at their sites. Implementation activities include installation, configuration, troubleshooting, customization, testing, and documentation. Provide technical expertise and real-life experience in creating solutions, designs, proof of concept and implementation Drive high levels of customer satisfaction Be a strong voice for your customers into the Marketing and Engineering teams to improve the product and ensure that Proofpoint deployments successful. Coordinate with multiple parties -- internal departments as well as the customer -- to ensure timely and satisfactory resolution to technical issues, and completion of projects http://www.proofpoint.com/company/careers.php#dept14 Sr Software Engineer: Infrastructure & Web Svcs APIs. They turn a software product into a software platform. Well thought out APIs are challenging to design because it requires a high level of knowledge and experience in both the specific problem space of the product, as well as what other developers and integrators will want to do.

Do you have what it takes to help Proofpoint build the next generation of Web Service based APIs and implement the services, servers and infrastructure to process make the APIs successful? If so, you need to work with the Proofpoint administration and infrastructure team to help build these APIs, services, and infrastructure.

Duties and Responsibilities:
You will work in a small team as the lead developer responsible for creating Web Service based APIs as well as implementing the services, servers, and infrastructure for those APIs.

Requirements:

  • Strong working knowledge of Web Services (SOAP, REST, WSDL, XML, etc)
  • Application and API development skills
  • Usage and understanding of existing public web services (Google, PayPal, Yahoo!, etc)
  • Strong working knowledge of relational databases (SQL, MySQL)
  • Java language and technologies experience (JSF, Facelets, JSP, Tomcat, Axis,etc)
  • Knowledge of security related topics as they relate to public APIs and Web Services.
  • Strong understanding of coding in a network based environment
  • Bachelors of Computer Science or equivalent


    • Desired Skills:
  • Background in Perl
  • Experience in Highly Available software
  • Desires to work in a small team environment
  • Self-Starter

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]]> APIs. They turn a software product into a software platform. Well thought out APIs are challenging to design because it requires a high level of knowledge and experience in both the specific problem space of the product, as well as what other developers and integrators will want to do. Do you have what it takes to help Proofpoint build the next generation of Web Service based APIs and implement the services, servers and infrastructure to process make the APIs successful? If so, you need to work with the Proofpoint administration and infrastructure team to help build these APIs, services, and infrastructure. Duties and Responsibilities: You will work in a small team as the lead developer responsible for creating Web Service based APIs as well as implementing the services, servers, and infrastructure for those APIs. http://www.proofpoint.com/company/careers.php#dept2 Senior Engineer - Proofpoint on Demand We are seeking a motivated individual to work on product improvements within the Proofpoint on Demand product line, including deployment models involving Virtualization technologies, new product initiatives and integration work to improve customer roll-out.

This person should have experience with Virtualization technologies, monitoring and/or performance benchmarking, as well as understand how to provide tools for and interface with operations people.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years working/supporting medium- to large-scale system deployments
  • Working knowledge of Virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, Xen, ...)
  • Working knowledge of Perl / Shell / Python scripting
  • Working knowledge of Unix/Linux
  • Working knowledge with storage systems (Integration of storage with Virtual Environment a plus!)
  • Good communication skills - written and verbal
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent

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]]> We are seeking a motivated individual to work on product improvements within the Proofpoint on Demand product line, including deployment models involving Virtualization technologies, new product initiatives and integration work to improve customer roll-out. This person should have experience with Virtualization technologies, monitoring and/or performance benchmarking, as well as understand how to provide tools for and interface with operations people. http://www.proofpoint.com/company/careers.php#dept2 Spam Data Engineer We are seeking a talented Spam Data Engineer to join the Proofpoint Attack Response Center as part of our Spam Data Analysis team. As a Spam Data Engineer, you will be part of a world class team responsible for real-time detection and blocking of spam email for Proofpoint's substantial and growing customer global customer base.

Job responsibilities include:
  • Developing new spam detection algorithms and rules
  • Working with other members of Spam Team to facilitate rapid deployment of newly-created rules and spam definition updates to customer base
  • Categorization of email messages in English and other languages

Requirements:

  • Perl programming skills including writing regular expressions (regex) and similar algorithms
  • Basic feature engineering skills with focus on the foreign language phrase extraction
  • Data mining skills including basic database experience (MySQL)
  • Basic experience with Unix operating environment
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent


    • Desired skills:
  • Near-native fluency in one of the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese
  • Knowledge of HTML markup, especially as it relates to spam techniques.
  • Basic knowledge of RFC 822 and SMTP protocol
  • 3+ years experience in a similar role

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]]> We are seeking a talented Spam Data Engineer to join the Proofpoint Attack Response Center as part of our Spam Data Analysis team. As a Spam Data Engineer, you will be part of a world class team responsible for real-time detection and blocking of spam email for Proofpoint's substantial and growing customer global customer base. Job responsibilities include: Developing new spam detection algorithms and rules Working with other members of Spam Team to facilitate rapid deployment of newly-created rules and spam definition updates to customer base Categorization of email messages in English and other languages http://www.proofpoint.com/company/careers.php#dept2 Network Engineer Proofpoint is seeking an experienced IP Network Engineer 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 Network Engineer is responsible for all aspects of the Proofpoint corporate and production data networks, working with Juniper/Cisco/F5 systems.

Duties
  • Manage an international, 24-7 / always on, multi-site / multi-provider IP network powering the Proofpoint services
  • Design, implement, and operate a scalable and reliable network infrastructure supporting a fast growth hosted service
  • Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting, and reporting for the network
  • Troubleshooting and resolving issues
  • Capacity planning for all aspects of the network
  • Developing and maintaining proper documentation
  • Collaborate with the Engineering Development team on product features
  • Participation in an on-call rotation

Requirements:

  • Proficient in switching, routing, firewall and server load balancer technologies
  • Strong knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP and OSPF
  • Experience supporting multi-provider BGP configuration
  • Strong fundamental understanding of TCP, UDP, IP, and IP addressing / subnet masking / design along with the troubleshooting of these.
  • Linux/unix proficiency and the use of network troubleshooting tools (tcpdump, mtr, etc)
  • Excellent verbal and written skills


    • Highly Desired
  • ISP & datacenter networking experience
  • Corporate network experience
  • VoIP experience
  • Proficient with JunOS and ScreenOS

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]]> Proofpoint is seeking an experienced IP Network Engineer 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 Network Engineer is responsible for all aspects of the Proofpoint corporate and production data networks, working with Juniper/Cisco/F5 systems. Duties Manage an international, 24-7 / always on, multi-site / multi-provider IP network powering the Proofpoint services Design, implement, and operate a scalable and reliable network infrastructure supporting a fast growth hosted service Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting, and reporting for the network Troubleshooting and resolving issues Capacity planning for all aspects of the network Developing and maintaining proper documentation Collaborate with the Engineering Development team on product features Participation in an on-call rotation http://www.proofpoint.com/company/careers.php#dept8