Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by threat intelligence, AI and machine learning from SophosLabs and SophosAI, Sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing and the wide range of other cyberattacks. Sophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, Sophos Central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendors. Sophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos has major hubs around the globe. More information is available at www.sophos.com
Role Summary
As a member of the Sophos Central Data Platform development team, you will closely work with software engineers, architects, product management and others to design and build the Sophos Central Data platform vision. This role involves working with engineering and product management leaders across Sophos Central.
What you will do
- As part of the Data Platform team, participate in planning and design sessions with engineering management, architects, operations and development team leads.
- Take pride in authorship of code.
- Write code (Test or Product) to deliver against project timescales, quality and requirements in various languages including Java or other selected languages for Sophos Cloud products.
- Work with best of breed Cloud technologies (NoSQL, high throughput event processing, cloud-scale data analytics, etc.)
- Participate in Agile Software Development methodologies.
What you will bring
- 5 to 9 years of total and relevant Software development experience.
- In-depth knowledge of Java web-based applications with Spring Boot and using containers including Docker.
- Experience in Data modeling, data structures, and schema management.
- We seek a top-performing technical leader with the passion, experience, and gravitas to effectively lead and contribute to this critical technology function. The ideal candidate will be a high energy, team oriented, customer driven problem solver with prior experience in designing and implementing highly scalable platforms or applications for small businesses and enterprises.
- Solid understanding of cloud-based platforms and microservice architecture. Hands on experience designing and implementing cloud-based platforms on AWS or Google Cloud and using multiservice architecture.
- Proven track record of architecting, building, deploying and testing large scale distributed systems handling millions of requests per minute, including demonstrated understanding of best practices for API design and overall platform design considerations such as auth, messaging, logging, monitoring and testability.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills and demonstrated ability to investigate and solve complex problems, including solving critical production issues in complex systems and investigating and determining root causes.
- Capability and desire to own both the design and implementation of software components and services to solve deep technical problems.
- Understanding of common standards / processes / tools and the ability to leverage them where possible.
- Experience in using Kafka is huge plus.
- Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies is a plus.
- Strong Linux or Unix systems experience.
- Excellent in verbal and written communication, and able to constructively discuss and convey differing ideas, approaches, and perspectives, particularly in written communications.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent
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What's Great About Sophos?
· 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 that 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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