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Proofpoint is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer for its Threat Intelligence team. The role focuses on developing full-stack applications and backend services, managing databases, and supporting AWS infrastructure, while improving reliability and collaborating with engineering and threat intelligence stakeholders.\n\nResponsibilities\nBuild and maintain full-stack applications and backend services using Python, TypeScript, React, and Go\nOwn and manage large SQL databases backing applications and services used by the Threat Intelligence team, including schema design, query optimization, migrations, and operational health\nProactively identify problems before they become incidents: Seek out reliability, performance, and correctness issues. 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