Senior Software Development Engineer Jobs in Arizona
Senior Software Development Engineer jobs in Arizona are among the most active in the western United States, concentrated heavily in aerospace and defense, financial technology, semiconductor design, and enterprise software across the Phoenix metro, Tucson, and Scottsdale. Major employers with lasting Arizona footprints include Intel, Raytheon Technologies, and American Express, all of which maintain large engineering teams in the state. The most in-demand specialties are cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and embedded software for defense and semiconductor applications. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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 global 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
The Role
The Threat Intelligence Services (TIS) team turns Proofpoint's threat data and telemetry into intelligence products for customers through reporting, analytics, detection content, and live briefings. Behind that work is a fast-growing suite of internal web applications, data integrations, automation, cloud infrastructure, and a customer-facing CMS. We are hiring a software engineer to build and operate that platform.
You will own tools end to end: standing up and running the team's AWS environment, building the APIs and integrations that connect internal threat-intel systems, third-party feeds, and AI/LLM services, and shipping the web front-ends and automation the analyst team relies on daily to produce and deliver intelligence at scale. This is a builder role for a full-stack, infrastructure-comfortable engineer who can take an idea from an analyst to a deployed, dependable tool with minimal supervision.
This is the engineering counterpart to our customer-facing Threat Intelligence Analyst role: you make the analysts faster and their output sharper by replacing manual, repetitive workflows with reliable software and ensure that customers can reliably access content and APIs.
Your day-to-day
Administer and troubleshoot the team's AWS environment, including but not limited to EC2, Lambda, storage, networking (VPC, DNS/Route 53, transit gateway, security groups), monitoring, and deployment pipelines.
Design and build APIs and integrations (AWS API Gateway) that wire internal threat-intel platforms, third-party threat feeds, and LLM services into the tooling suite.
Develop and deploy the web front-ends analysts use to generate and deliver intelligence (React / Node.js; Fuse), including dashboards, report/deck generators, and detection tooling.
Maintain and develop enhancements to the headless CMS-based customer threat intel portal, its underlying database (PostgreSQL and Elastic Search) infrastructure, and micro-frontend (Fuse/React)
Write Python services (FastAPI) for data processing, report and detection-rule generation, and workflow automation.
Model and query data across PostgreSQL and Elastic Search and support headless-CMS-backed content workflows.
Partner directly with analysts to identify manual, repetitive intelligence tasks and turn them into automated, maintainable products.
Keep the platform secure, observable, and well-documented. You own reliability, troubleshooting, QA, and security for what you ship.
Tech stack
Languages: Python, JavaScript (React/JSX)
Cloud: AWS — Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ALB/VPC
IaC: Terraform / Terramake
CMS: dotCMS
API/Auth: REST APIs, custom authorizers, JWT / API keys
Domain: Threat intelligence / IOC feeds (STIX, MISP, CSV)
Tooling: Git, CI/CD, AWS CLI
What you bring to the team (required)
2-5 years of professional software engineering experience and are comfortable delivering and operating production systems with minimal supervision. We are open to candidates around the 2-year mark, but this is not an entry-level role.
Hands-on AWS administration: EC2, Lambda, storage, networking, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
API development and integration experience; AWS API Gateway preferred.
Front-end development with React and Node.js, ideally including Fuse (or a comparable React application framework).
Proficiency in Python.
SQL and relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL.
Ability to learn new systems and domains quickly and work independently across the full stack infrastructure, backend, and front-end.
Nice to have
Micro front-end development and deployment.
ElasticSearch.
Experience with headless CMSs (e.g., dotCMS, Payload, Strapi, or Contentful).
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server development.
Containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
Familiarity with cybersecurity or threat-intelligence concepts as you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with analysts, so curiosity about the domain goes a long way (you don't need to be an analyst yourself).
Why Proofpoint?
At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:
Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits
Career success on your terms
Flexible work environment
Annual wellness and community outreach days
Always on recognition for your contributions
Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Our Culture:
Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone.
We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to accessibility@proofpoint.com.
How to Apply
Interested? Submit your application along with any supporting information- we can’t wait to hear from you!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges:
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:
Base Pay Range: 166,500.00 - 244,200.00 USDCalifornia (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:
Base Pay Range: 136,200.00 - 199,760.00 USDAll other cities and states excluding those listed above:
Base Pay Range: 124,100.00 - 182,050.00 USDAbout 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 global 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
The Role
The Threat Intelligence Services (TIS) team turns Proofpoint's threat data and telemetry into intelligence products for customers through reporting, analytics, detection content, and live briefings. Behind that work is a fast-growing suite of internal web applications, data integrations, automation, cloud infrastructure, and a customer-facing CMS. We are hiring a software engineer to build and operate that platform.
You will own tools end to end: standing up and running the team's AWS environment, building the APIs and integrations that connect internal threat-intel systems, third-party feeds, and AI/LLM services, and shipping the web front-ends and automation the analyst team relies on daily to produce and deliver intelligence at scale. This is a builder role for a full-stack, infrastructure-comfortable engineer who can take an idea from an analyst to a deployed, dependable tool with minimal supervision.
This is the engineering counterpart to our customer-facing Threat Intelligence Analyst role: you make the analysts faster and their output sharper by replacing manual, repetitive workflows with reliable software and ensure that customers can reliably access content and APIs.
Your day-to-day
Administer and troubleshoot the team's AWS environment, including but not limited to EC2, Lambda, storage, networking (VPC, DNS/Route 53, transit gateway, security groups), monitoring, and deployment pipelines.
Design and build APIs and integrations (AWS API Gateway) that wire internal threat-intel platforms, third-party threat feeds, and LLM services into the tooling suite.
Develop and deploy the web front-ends analysts use to generate and deliver intelligence (React / Node.js; Fuse), including dashboards, report/deck generators, and detection tooling.
Maintain and develop enhancements to the headless CMS-based customer threat intel portal, its underlying database (PostgreSQL and Elastic Search) infrastructure, and micro-frontend (Fuse/React)
Write Python services (FastAPI) for data processing, report and detection-rule generation, and workflow automation.
Model and query data across PostgreSQL and Elastic Search and support headless-CMS-backed content workflows.
Partner directly with analysts to identify manual, repetitive intelligence tasks and turn them into automated, maintainable products.
Keep the platform secure, observable, and well-documented. You own reliability, troubleshooting, QA, and security for what you ship.
Tech stack
Languages: Python, JavaScript (React/JSX)
Cloud: AWS — Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ALB/VPC
IaC: Terraform / Terramake
CMS: dotCMS
API/Auth: REST APIs, custom authorizers, JWT / API keys
Domain: Threat intelligence / IOC feeds (STIX, MISP, CSV)
Tooling: Git, CI/CD, AWS CLI
What you bring to the team (required)
2-5 years of professional software engineering experience and are comfortable delivering and operating production systems with minimal supervision. We are open to candidates around the 2-year mark, but this is not an entry-level role.
Hands-on AWS administration: EC2, Lambda, storage, networking, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
API development and integration experience; AWS API Gateway preferred.
Front-end development with React and Node.js, ideally including Fuse (or a comparable React application framework).
Proficiency in Python.
SQL and relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL.
Ability to learn new systems and domains quickly and work independently across the full stack infrastructure, backend, and front-end.
Nice to have
Micro front-end development and deployment.
ElasticSearch.
Experience with headless CMSs (e.g., dotCMS, Payload, Strapi, or Contentful).
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server development.
Containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
Familiarity with cybersecurity or threat-intelligence concepts as you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with analysts, so curiosity about the domain goes a long way (you don't need to be an analyst yourself).
Why Proofpoint?
At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:
Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits
Career success on your terms
Flexible work environment
Annual wellness and community outreach days
Always on recognition for your contributions
Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Our Culture:
Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone.
We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to accessibility@proofpoint.com.
How to Apply
Interested? Submit your application along with any supporting information- we can’t wait to hear from you!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges:
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:
Base Pay Range: 166,500.00 - 244,200.00 USDCalifornia (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:
Base Pay Range: 136,200.00 - 199,760.00 USDAll other cities and states excluding those listed above:
Base Pay Range: 124,100.00 - 182,050.00 USDSee All 44 Senior Software Development Engineer Jobs in Arizona
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What Arizona Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior software development engineer jobs across Arizona.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field required
- Seven or more years of professional software development experience in production environments
- Deep proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Java, C++, or Python
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable distributed systems or cloud-native architectures
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading technical design reviews on cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with Agile or SAFe delivery frameworks common in Arizona aerospace and enterprise environments
Senior Software Development Engineer Jobs in Arizona: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior software development engineer in Arizona?
The path to a senior software development engineer role in Arizona typically starts with a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or electrical engineering, followed by several years of progressive engineering experience. Arizona does not require a state-issued license for most software roles, but engineers working on defense or government contracts may need a federal security clearance. Building expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, or embedded software strengthens candidacy with Arizona's dominant aerospace, semiconductor, and fintech employers.
How much do senior software development engineers make in Arizona?
Senior software development engineers in Arizona earn a median of about $129,690 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $81,740 for the lowest 10% to over $178,500 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior software development engineers in Arizona?
Employers hiring senior software development engineers in Arizona right now include Raytheon, Speechify, and CVS Health, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Arizona's mix of aerospace primes, semiconductor manufacturers, and large financial services firms means demand is distributed across both the greater Phoenix corridor and the Tucson defense cluster.
Which Arizona cities have the most senior software development engineer jobs?
The cities with the most senior software development engineer openings in Arizona are Phoenix, Tucson, and Scottsdale. The Phoenix metro dominates because it anchors Intel's semiconductor campuses, American Express's technology operations, and a dense cluster of defense contractors, while Tucson draws openings through Raytheon Technologies and University of Arizona-affiliated research and commercialization activity.
Are there remote senior software development engineer jobs in Arizona?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 65% of senior software development engineer openings tied to Arizona are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how naturally the role translates to distributed work. Backend, cloud, and platform engineering positions tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles involving hardware integration, embedded systems, or classified defense work are almost always on-site.
How can I get hired as a senior software development engineer in Arizona with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is landing an associate or junior software engineer role and building toward senior through demonstrated scope growth. Intel and Raytheon both run university hire and early-career engineering programs in Arizona that recruit from Arizona State University and the University of Arizona. Adjacent roles such as QA engineer, DevOps associate, or systems analyst at Arizona fintech or defense firms regularly serve as lateral entry points. A strong public portfolio or an open-source contribution record gives early-career candidates a concrete edge when experience is limited.
Where can I find and apply to senior software development engineer jobs in Arizona?
You can find and apply to senior software development engineer jobs in Arizona on Migrate Mate, which lists current Arizona openings across industries. Find the roles that fit your background and apply directly from the listing.
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