Sophos

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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 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