Sophos
Defeat Cyberattacks
Senior Software Engineer II, Platform Engineering
Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1985H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
177 days ago
Salary
$149K - $248K / year
5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsElastic SearchJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresPythonRedisGo
Job 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
Job 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
