Progress

Progress builds AI-powered infrastructure software - platforms for managing digital experiences, AI/data pipelines, and application infrastructure. Founded in 1981 and publicly traded on NASDAQ (PRGS), the Burlington, Massachusetts-based company has over four decades in the enterprise software space. Its technology underpins applications across banking, chat, gaming, and e-commerce, with hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of developers relying on its stack globally. The threat surface is broad by nature: Progress tools power the digital experiences that billions of people interact with daily, from transactional banking platforms to real-time gaming environments. Security roles here operate at the infrastructure layer - securing the software supply chain, hardening deployment pipelines, and ensuring that AI-powered applications meet responsible deployment standards. The attack model is less about perimeter defense and more about the integrity of the platforms themselves. Teams work across AI and data platforms, digital experience tooling, infrastructure management, and UI/UX development. Offices span Europe and Asia-Pacific alongside the Massachusetts headquarters. The scale is real but the specifics - product names, headcount, internal tooling - are sparse from the outside. If you're looking at this one, the interesting angle is defending the layer that other people's applications depend on.