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Sr Backend Engineer

Sr Backend Engineer

Proofpoint
4-6 Years
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Job Description

We're looking for an engineer who loves building from the ground up - someone who enjoys turning ideas into working systems, cares deeply about quality, thrives in a fast-moving, collaborative environment. You'll join as an early team member and help shape both the product and culture from day one

Responsibilities:

- Own problems end-to-end from design to deployment with a strong bias toward quality, automation, and continuous improvement.

- Introduce new techniques, architecture, and best practices to improve scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

- Build tooling and observability to monitor system health, identify bottlenecks, and proactively resolve instability.

- Balance rapid iteration on early-stage systems with long-term maintainability and architectural soundness.

- Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, mentorship, and team-first collaboration.

Skills:

- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend / distributed systems.

- Experience building and operating production-grade systems at scale in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Experience with large-scale distributed systems ideally written in Golang.

- Experience with micro service design using API gateways, and container orchestration (Kubernetes / Docker)

- Experience with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines

- Strong debugging, instrumentation, and observability skills across distributed systems.

- Proven ability to take ownership of complex problems and learn quickly.

- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such coding assistants etc.

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Key Skills

AI-assisted development tools

DevOps workflows

backend distributed systems

debugging instrumentation and observability

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