Sr. Software Engineer

Proofpoint•Draper, UT

22h

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve backend services and detection capabilities in a production environment. You will work across the full lifecycle—design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response—bringing strong engineering fundamentals, operational ownership, and an innovative mindset (including comfort applying AI-assisted approaches ) to improve reliability and detection outcomes.

Requirements

Strong experience building production systems with one or more of Java, Go, Python (comfort working across multiple languages preferred ).
Demonstrated ability to operate services in production, including on-call and escalation handling.
Hungry for new knowledge, innovation, architectural and algorithmic optimizations
Hands-on familiarity with modern observ ability stacks such as: Prometheus (metrics), Grafana (dashboards), and PagerDuty (incident management).
Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to finding and addressing issues .
Team player and effective communicator —able to coordinate during incidents and explain technical tradeoffs clearly.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Coralogix ( logging /observability).
Experience building or improving detection systems (signal extraction, alert ing logic, triage workflows).
Comfort using AI-assisted tooling thoughtfully (e.g., to accelerate investigation, automation, or detection logic), with good engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain backend services using Java, Go, and Python , selecting the right tool/l anguage for the job .
Own operational excellence for your services: Participate in an on-call rotation and handle escalations with urgency and good judgment.
Diagnose complex production issues, drive mitigation, and lead root-c ause analysis and follow -ups.
Observability & monitoring : Use and improve alert ing/monitoring with PagerDuty , Prometheus , and Grafana . Experience with Coralogix is a strong plus.
Proactively identify problems before they become incidents: Seek out reliability, performance , and correctness issues.
Improve runbooks, dashboards, alert quality, and automation.
Deliver pragmatic solutions across a mix of work: Comfortable taking on sometimes “boring” but necessary projects (maintenance, migrations, refactors, operational hard ening).
Bring an innovative spirit — especially around detection solutions and smarter ways to surface/triage issues .
Collaborate closely with engineers and stakeholders: Communicate clearly in incidents and design discussions.
Contribute to a culture of learning , blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.