Staff Software Engineer (MIP tech lead)
Core
Architectural direction and technical leadership for the ingestion platform of Proofpoint's Digital Communications Governance product, handling millions of daily messages across email, cloud, and collaboration tools.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (MIP tech lead)
Builds
Scalable, robust data ingestion platform for enterprise data governance
Domain
Cybersecurity / Data Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kafka streaming systems, Kubernetes/EKS operations, Java backend development, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), AWS cloud services, Distributed systems design, Cost-aware architecture, Technical leadership, SLO definition
Preferred skills
Archiving/eDiscovery domain knowledge, Stream processing frameworks (Flink/Spark), GitOps, Multi-tenant system design
Technologies
Kafka, EKS, Java, Terraform, AWS (MSK, S3, Lambda), KEDA, Helm, Claude Code, Copilot
Responsibilities
Define architectural direction for ingestion topology and API design; Establish engineering standards and observability stacks; Lead incident response and RCA for ingestion failures; Mentor distributed team across Toronto and India; Optimize cloud cost-to-serve while maintaining reliability; Drive cross-team alignment on ingestion interfaces and contracts.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
