Join Proofpoint as a Staff Software Engineer focusing on data ingestion in Toronto. This role combines technical leadership and engineering excellence within a hybrid team.
In this position, you will serve as the technical lead for the ingestion platform, making critical decisions that affect data entry and processing for high-volume communication streams. Collaborating with product and engineering leads, you will contribute to system architecture and set the roadmap for the future of the platform. Your leadership will be essential in fostering a culture of quality and innovation among distributed teams.
Key Responsibilities:
• Architect and optimize ingestion features for scalability
• Define SLOs for performance and data integrity




• Lead incident response and root cause analysis
• Collaborate on across-team interfaces and algorithms
• Utilize AI tools to enhance engineering processes
Requirements:
• Expert knowledge of streaming systems, particularly Kafka
• Solid backend engineering with a focus on Java
• Skilled in Kubernetes/EKS setting management
• Familiarity with AWS services and cost management
• Proven experience in technical mentorship
Lead the evolution of data engineering at Proofpoint in a role that matters and impacts security for major enterprises.
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📌 Staff Software Engineer, Data Ingestion At Proofpoint Toronto
🏢 Segment (Twilio)
📍 Toronto