As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will develop and maintain backend services, collaborate with teams, provide mentorship, and handle technical challenges at Sophos.
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The Platform Engineering Group focuses on backend service and tooling development for other teams and customers to use. We build performant, robust microservices and collaborate with internal and external engineering teams to solve problems. Our primary tech stack consists of Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis and Kafka, but we also use tools like Elasticsearch, Knative, Temporal.io and various AWS services. All Sophos engineering teams use Agile methodologies.
Senior Software Engineers are senior members of their teams and design, implement and maintain services according to the best practices of Sophos’s global cloud development organization. A Senior Software Engineer will work closely with other members of their team to define and execute Sophos’s vision with respect to Platform Engineering.
What You Will Do
- 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
What You Will Bring
- 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
- Nice to Have:
- 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
In the United States, the base salary for this role ranges from $149,000 to $248,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
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Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· 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
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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Top Skills
AWS
Elasticsearch
Go
Kafka
Knative
Kubernetes
Postgres
Redis
Temporal.Io
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