Sophos · 3 months ago
Senior Software Engineer II (Platform Engineering)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$149K/yr - $248K/yr
5+ years expSophos is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, recently becoming the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response provider. The Senior Software Engineer II in Platform Engineering will design, implement, and maintain software services, collaborating closely with teams to ensure high-quality deliverables and support the development of the platform's vision.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySoftware
No H1B
Responsibilities
Develop, design and implement software components with test coverage and automation, delivered against project timescales, quality and security requirements
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. Lead tradeoff analysis to select the proper tool for the job at hand
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 for your teams’ and related client-facing systems as part of the response management team
Provide support and mentorship for team members, especially regarding software components and processes you work with. Review and provide feedback on work products, software components, and processes
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
Qualification
Required
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 and an ability to work through problems and get stakeholders and team mates to align
Preferred
Running distributed systems in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS
Deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads and designing microservice applications
Familiarity with Temporal.io or Cadenceworkflow.io
Remote work with a geographically distributed team
DevOps / SRE practices such as CI/CD, infra as code, production monitoring
Working with 'best of breed' Cloud technologies (Kafka, Elastic Search, high throughput event processing, cloud-scale data analytics, etc)
Troubleshooting large scale, cloud-based applications
Benefits
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
Company
Sophos
Sophos develops network security and threat management products to protect organizations against malicious acts.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$125.01M2021-08-24Post Ipo Equity· $65.23M
2019-10-14Acquired
2015-06-26IPO
Leadership Team
Joe Levy
Chief Executive Officer
Peter Lammer
Co-founder
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