Senior Manager, Software Development

🔥 0 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

🇬🇧 UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored UK Skilled Worker visas in the past.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Sophos

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1985

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-08

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.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a distributed engineering team across India and North America, building strong working relationships across time zones in a remote-first environment • Own delivery of data enrichment and AI initiatives, ensuring quality, reliability, and performance at scale • Partner with product management and technical leadership to shape the roadmap for enrichment, AI insights, and natural language capabilities • Evaluate architecture proposals and technical approaches, choosing a path that balances risk, roadmap goals, and maintainability • Mentor and grow engineering talent, identifying development needs and creating career growth opportunities across the team • Build relationships with MDR analysts, threat intelligence researchers, and platform engineers to understand customer needs and inform product direction • Manage technical debt strategically, balancing remediation against product delivery while staying current with relevant developments in security, AI, and data engineering • Understand how the team's work connects to product success and business priorities, and use that context to guide planning decisions • Drive engineering quality by monitoring delivery metrics, improving processes, and coordinating with security teams

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering management experience with distributed teams, ideally in backend, data engineering, or platform domains • Solid understanding of large-scale data processing systems and cloud-native architectures • Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and microservice-based architectures - enough to guide your team's technical direction credibly • Experience adapting delivery approaches to suit your team's context rather than following a framework by the book • Track record of developing and mentoring engineering staff at various career stages • Clear communicator who can bridge technical and non-technical audiences • Passion for building inclusive, collaborative team cultures in a remote-first setting • Nice to have: Experience in the cybersecurity domain, particularly threat intelligence, data enrichment, or security analytics • Nice to have: Familiarity with AI/ML or natural language processing in a product context • Nice to have: Experience with large-scale data ingestion and enrichment pipelines

🏖️ Benefits

• Sophos operates a remote-first working model • Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit • Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy • Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities • Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint • Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp • Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge • Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing