Senior Software Engineer II, Platform Engineering

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September 19

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Cybersecurity • SaaS

Sophos is a leading cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting businesses against advanced cyber threats. The company offers a comprehensive suite of security solutions, including endpoint protection, managed detection and response (MDR), network security, and cloud security. With a prevention-first approach, Sophos aims to stop ransomware and other cyber threats before they cause harm. Sophos provides services such as threat research, security training, and operational support to ensure robust defense against cyberattacks. Their solutions cater to various industries including finance, healthcare, government, manufacturing, and retail. The Sophos Central platform delivers centralized security management, integrating seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure to enhance security posture.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1985

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-08

📋 Description

• Develop, design and implement software components with test coverage and automation • Collaborate with other software engineers, experts, designers, managers and clients to generate documentation, designs, and software development plans • Bring new and emerging technologies to the team as options for current and future implementation tools and lead tradeoff analysis • Contribute to daily stand-ups, kick-offs, collaborative estimation and retrospective meetings • Handle on-call duties and respond to outages, degraded performance, security breaches and other situations • Provide support and mentorship for team members, review and provide feedback on work products • Support the hiring, onboarding and personal development of team members • Help all team members improve their technical skills • Mentor more junior members of the team through onboarding, pair programming and code reviews

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience • Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python • Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code • Solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices • Experience using databases and designing data access patterns at scale • Demonstrated skills in implementing, testing and debugging software systems and components • Strong communication skills and an ability to lead others • Self-motivated and self-directed, great at communicating complex ideas with remote teams • Excellent problem-solving skills • Nice to Have: Running distributed systems in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS • Nice to Have: Deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads and designing microservice applications • Nice to Have: Familiarity with Temporal.io or Cadenceworkflow.io • Nice to Have: Remote work with a geographically distributed team • Nice to Have: DevOps / SRE practices such as CI/CD, infra as code, production monitoring • Nice to Have: Working with Cloud technologies (Kafka, Elastic Search, high throughput event processing, cloud-scale data analytics) • Nice to Have: Troubleshooting large scale, cloud-based applications • Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees • Bonus eligibility • Comprehensive benefits package • Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks • Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days • Global employee sustainability initiatives • Global fitness and trivia competitions • Global wellbeing days • Monthly wellbeing webinars and training