Principal Software Engineer (Backend development- Network domain)

Bangalore, India
Product Development – Software Engineering /
Permanent /
Hybrid
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary
Looking for anexcellent backend developer for managing and advancing a cloud-based network security offerings 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. 
    • Work on prototypes that are pre-cursors to features on the product roadmap. 
    • Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility 

What you will bring

    • 12+ years of relevant work experience
    • Excellent programming skills and debugging skills. 
    • Excellent design skills using principles of reuse, modularity, scale, etc.
    • Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms. 
    • Deep understanding of computer networks (L3, L4, L7 layers) 
    • Good understanding of, Microservice architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure, SQL and NoSQL databases. 
    • Experience with C/go is a plus 
    • Solid understanding of Amazon AWS Cloud infrastructure & microservices development.
    • Prior experience in operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Kubernetes or others. 
    • Solid understanding of highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments. 
    • Be able to write “infra as code” using Terraform. 
    • Ability to work independently
    • DevOps and build: Jenkins, Git, Gradle, GitHub Actions 
    • Containers: Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes cluster
    • OS: Linux/Unix 
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
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Ready to Join Us?
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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. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.
·   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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