Staff Software Engineer (MIP tech lead)
Core
Architectural direction and technical leadership for the ingestion platform that brings data into Proofpoint's Archive at scale, processing millions of messages daily.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (MIP tech lead)
Builds
Scalable, robust ingestion platform for Digital Communications Governance (DCG) product line
Domain
Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Data engineering principles, Streaming and event-driven systems, Backend systems development, Kubernetes/EKS operational depth, Infrastructure-as-Code, Cloud infrastructure expertise, Cost-aware mindset, Staff-level technical leadership
Preferred skills
Archiving/eDiscovery/compliance domain knowledge, Connector protocols design, Stream processing frameworks
Technologies
Kafka, EKS, Terraform, AWS (MSK, S3, Lambda), Java, REST API, Helm, KEDA
Responsibilities
Define architectural direction for ingestion platform and roadmap, Establish engineering standards and observability stacks, Lead incident response and RCA for ingestion failures, Optimize cloud cost-to-serve while maintaining reliability, Mentor distributed team across Toronto and India, Drive cross-team alignment on ingestion interfaces and APIs
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership