Sophos

Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description

Role Summary

Our Sophos ZTNA Team is looking for developers who possess excellent programming skills and have prior experience in network security field. We are looking for a backend developer for managing and advancing our cloud-based network security platform that handles tens of thousands of devices and customers. You will build features from the ground up using sound design principles around security and scale.



What you will do
  • Be able to interact with product managers to define the feature and write clear functional specs. 

 

  • Work with the frontend team to define the API contracts for the backend services. 

    • Work on critical field escalations and drive closure. 

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      • Work on prototypes that are pre-cursors to features on the product roadmap. 


What you will bring
  • Must have 6-9 years of total working experience as a backend developer working on below skills.

  • Working with commercial software using either Java Springboot / Golang / C / C++ 

  • 2+ years' experience working with containers & microservices (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes environments). 

  • In depth knowledge of different networking protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP) 

  • Excellent design skills using principles of reuse, modularity, scale, etc.  

  • Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms. 

  • Good understanding of, Microservice architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure, SQL and NoSQL databases. 

  • Experience working on Networking or Network Security domain is mandatory. 

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)