Hiring: Staff Software Engineer Company: Proofpoint Location: Boston, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 21:46:51 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Accessibility, Azure, C, C++, Cassandra, Compliance, Data Pipeline, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Event-Driven, Flink, GCP, GDPR, GitHub, Java, Kinesis, Microservices, MongoDB, Neo4j, Neptune, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, RESTful, Redis, Rust, SQL, Scala, Spark, TestNG About the job Experience: •10+ years in distributed systems and backend architecture Required Skills: •Build and scale a big data platform processing billions of data points daily •Design resilient systems across synchronous and asynchronous (event-driven, streaming) paradigms •Develop RESTful APIs in a microservices architecture •Establish standards for scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization •Drive design decisions across streaming, processing, and storage layers for performance and cost efficiency •Support time-series, event-driven, and analytical workloads Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent •10+ years in distributed systems and backend architecture •Knowledge of CAP theorem, consistency models, partitioning, replication, and sharding strategies •Practical experience utilizing streaming/messaging systems (Kinesis) and real-time/batch processing frameworks (Flink, Spark, Beam) •Proficiency in one or more of NodeJs, Go, Java, Scala, or Rust; familiarity with Python, or C/C++ a plus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!