Software Engineer - C/Golang Developer + Network Domain

About UsSophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based 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, turnkey 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 SummaryAs a Senior software engineer you will be working on our control plane. I, and be involved in the design and implementation of core components. It’s a great opportunity to help build from scratch our next generation control plane which will be included in our Firewall and other products. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting edge technology and interact closely with other engineering teams both locally and across Sophos. This role will leverage a variety of skills including Linux system knowledge, networking, performance optimization, data modelling and containers/orchestration in the cloud. This position will be based in Bangalore.

What you will doWork with stakeholders to understand control plane features/requirements, and deliver high quality engineering work which conforms to best practices Contribute to the design & implementation of the new control plane architecture Participate in backlog estimation & project planning activities Collaborate with QE teams to ensure product is well-tested and meets high quality standards Drive improvements in the team’s software development practices by driving quality into the SDLC as early as possible Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other junior developers on the teamHelp drive innovation and architecture of the new control plane framework

What you will bring3-5 years developing commercial/production software. BS/MS/PhD in information technology, computer science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent experienceExperience designing and developing microservicesExperience with the current technology stack which includes C/C++, Go, LinuxExperience developing sound, secure remote API such as RESTful, OpenAPI and/or gRPC APIsExperience with C programming and network security is a mustExperience with container development, deployment and securityKnowledge of container orchestration such as KubernetesAPI development knowledge of Kubernetes

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Key Skills

• Linux
• Microservices
• gRPC