Decoupled Drupal Engineer

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

The Web team is seeking a highly capable Decoupled Drupal 10 Engineer to own and evolve the backend architecture powering the global Forcepoint.com experience. This role is central to ensuring a performant, stable, secure, and scalable content platform that seamlessly integrates with our Next.js frontend and supports our rapid content operations, multilingual environment, and AI-era personalization roadmap.

A successful candidate brings deep Drupal 10 expertise, understands the complexities of decoupled architectures, and knows how to build structured, high-quality APIs that improve content authoring velocity, reliability, and downstream performance. You think in terms of architecture, scalability, and impact. You also care deeply about clean data models, consistent schemas, caching strategies, and building CMS features that create value.

If you love modern CMS engineering, API design, scalable content architecture, and collaborating closely with frontend and design teams, we’d love to talk.

Location: Brazil

Responsibilities Include

• Maintain the Drupal 10 backend powering Forcepoint.com.

• Architect and enhance decoupled GraphQL APIs supporting the Next.js frontend.

• Build robust content models, fields, entities, and workflows for a large multilingual site (12+ languages).

• Ensure consistent, structured, and scalable data formats for frontend consumption.

• Develop backend features, modules, and enhancements that improve authoring experience and reduce operational friction.

• Build scalable internationalization patterns.

• Support integrations with external systems

• Implement caching strategies.

• Optimize API performance, backend query efficiency, and database structure.

• Ensure platform uptime, reliability, and resilience in collaboration with hosting partners.

• Partner closely with the Next.js engineering team to ensure smooth API contracts and high-quality data flows.

• Participate in code reviews, documentation, architecture discussions, and mentoring of other devs.

• Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines for backend deployments.

• Monitor site health, logs, exceptions, and performance metrics (New Relic, Drupal Logs, LightHouse).

Required Technical Skills

• Expert-level Drupal 10 development (modules, hooks, services, configuration)

• Strong experience with decoupled Drupal and GraphQL

• Strong PHP 8+ skills and understanding of modern backend engineering patterns

• MySQL/MariaDB database proficiency (query optimization, schema design)

• Experience with Drupal caching layers

• Experience building multilingual and multi-region content architectures

• Composer, Drush, and modern Drupal tooling workflows

• Git version control and collaborative engineering workflows

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience integrating Drupal with Next.js frontends

• Pantheon or similar hosting platforms

• Symfony knowledge

• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)

• Understanding of web performance and Core Web Vitals

• Security-first engineering mindset, experience with compliance workflows

• DevOps or containerization knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes)

Qualified Candidates Should Have

• 5–7+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong emphasis on Drupal

• Demonstrated experience building decoupled or headless CMS architectures

• Experience working in agile, cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams

• Strong communication and documentation skills

• Ability to translate business and marketing needs into elegant backend solutions

• High attention to detail, quality, and long-term maintainability

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

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