At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to: - Build and enhance our proven security platform - Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture - Analyse new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel - Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

The Role

The successful candidate will join a friendly, energetic and results-oriented Engineering team, making a highly visible contribution to the end-to-end delivery of a multi-million dollar cloud-based cybersecurity platform. They will work closely with local Leadership and Engineers in Belfast, global Product Management, and staff based in our Silicon Valley headquarters, as part of a world class team driving rapid growth through high-quality, on-time feature releases that meet and exceed the expectations of our customers.

Responsibilities include:

- Developing against a complex platform, based on a wide range of technologies

- Taking ownership of key areas of a business-critical SaaS product running on Linux

- Contributing to, and promoting, the delivery of high quality, testable software, from requirements analysis through to acceptance testing

- Responding effectively and accurately to the needs of stakeholders, including Product Management, Support and QA

Requirements:

- Extensive software development experience

- Expertise in a range of languages, including two or more of: o PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Javascript/JQuery, C/C++, C#

- Extensive experience working in a product-focused development environment

- Ability to switch smoothly between back-end and front-end development

- Experience of both creating and integrating with REST/JSON APIs

- A track record for delivering high performance, scalable software

- Strong problem-solving skills

- Extensive Linux experience

- Good communication skills

Desirable:

- Exposure to SaaS-based product delivery

- Experience working as part of an agile software development team

- A keen interest in the cybersecurity domain

- In depth knowledge of email technology, including MTAs (e.g. Postfix), MX records and SMTP

- Experience of parsing and/or manipulating MIME messages in any language

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