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　　Corporate Overview

　　Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

　　We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

　　The Role

　　We are looking for an experienced performance engineer to join this leading-edge team, to extend and enhance the wide range of services provided by our service infrastructure. The successful candidate will work with developers to test and optimize our products in pre-production and monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in production. This is a technical, hands-on role for someone who is adept at gathering and analysing performance data and finding the root cause of performance bottlenecks.

　　Your day-to-day

　　Collaborate with members of the Engineering team to solve performance problems

　　Profile Java application performance using proven tools and techniques

　　Monitor production performance and investigate issues

　　Develop tools to automate performance monitoring

　　Test and profile new features pre-production to make sure they will scale and perform

　　Build out test labs and environment to mimic production conditions both for performance and scale

　　Work with Engineering groups to help validate architecture/designs to meet product performance requirements

　　What you bring to the team

　　Experienced building core enterprise products/solutions

　　Design and development skills in Java

　　Proficiency with Java, MySql and scripting tools such as Python and Shell scripting

　　Proficiency with Linux and the various tools and techniques used to debug performance problems from the OS all the way up to the highest-level JavaScript

　　Extensive hands-on experience with performance engineering, including the use of JMeter, LoadRunner or similar tools, as well as profiling tools

　　Experience working on teams using agile development techniques

　　Willingness to roll up your sleeves and work hard in a fast-moving startup environment

　　Strong communication skills

　　Experience with distributed systems

　　Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

　　Why Proofpoint

　　Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

　　We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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

　　Proofpoint was honored with 9 Best Places to Work Awards in 2023 by workplace culture leader, Comparably. To view additional awards, visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

　　Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

　　We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

　　Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

　　We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

　　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

　　Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

　　Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

　　We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

　　Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

　　Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.