Sr Backend Engineer

Proofpoint
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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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