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
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Role Summary
As part of a product development team for Sophos NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) product line, you will perform software development activities in technology area of Linux Operating System, Linux user space networking applications, etc… throughout the full development life cycle with focus on products or systems, including designing, coding, documenting, debugging, and testing of software to create the next generation of network security products.
What you will do
- Design products or systems which are part of NGFW product family in line with the technical strategy, highlight potential implications on other products or systems. More specifically on Synchronized security solution of Sophos NGFW.
- Clear interaction with different stake holders of the product like program managers, Product managers, UX team, etc…
- Close interaction with different feature teams especially when NGFW EPICs/features cuts boundaries and spread across multiple teams (technical, logical and geo)
- End to end technical and engineering ownership of features/EPICs/stories being developed within feature team for NGFW product(s)
- Conduct and participate in peer reviews of code, designs and specifications ensuring adherence to standards, making suggestions to increase quality to the author, and modifying own work in line with feedback received.
- Identify gaps in coverage in software design, specifications, user guides, and other documentation and provide recommendations for improvements to the author.
- Provide clear updates on progress against objectives in line with agreed process.
- Review requirements specifications for coverage, identify areas that require further clarification, and suggest alternative approaches to Product Management, in line with business needs.
- Write software specifications based on product requirements, in line with agreed process.
- Review product requirements with product management team and ensure technical cohesion across multiple products and technologies and make functional proposal to meet them
- Act as an escalation point for any matter relating to the technology, this includes technical support and customer queries.
- Projects are delivered using a matrix structure which will require the post-holder to work in a cross functional team, consisting of software engineers, test engineers, and product managers.
What you will bring
- Strong experience in Golang programming
- Should have experience working on linux networking stack, different application protocols like HTTP/S, SSL/TLS etc
- TCP/IP Networking protocols understanding, Socket programming
- Experience in Container, Microservice, REST API
- Unit testing, Integration testing for open-source component changes as well as home grown components
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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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