About Us
Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80% of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple: safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
How We Work
At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a integral team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities Accountable for results and best in class outcomes Visionary in future focused problem-solving Exceptional in execution and impact.
Position Overview
Proofpoint is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our growing Data Platform team. In this senior individual-contributor role you will design, build,



and operate the large-scale data infrastructure that underpins Proofpoint's cybersecurity products and analytics. You will work across the full data lifecycle—ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery—using modern cloud-native tooling on AWS. You'll partner with data scientists, product engineers, and business stakeholders to turn raw data into reliable, governed, and performant data assets that drive product decisions and customer value.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement scalable, reliable data pipelines using AWS Glue (PySpark and Glue Studio) to ingest and transform petabyte-scale datasets stored in Amazon S3.
- Build and maintain our cloud data lake architecture on S3—defining partition strategies, file formats (Parquet, ORC, Delta), and data-catalog schemas in AWS Glue Data Catalog.
- Establish and enforce data quality standards—implement validation frameworks, anomaly detection, and SLA-d

📌 Staff Data Engineer (Córdoba)
🏢 Proofpoint
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