Senior Software Engineer

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

 

• 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. 

• Must have 7-10 years of total working experience as a backend developer working on below skills.

• Working with commercial software using either Java Springboot / Golang / C / C++ 

• 2+ years' experience working with containers & microservices (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes environments). 

• In depth knowledge of different networking protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP) 

• Excellent design skills using principles of reuse, modularity, scale, etc.  

• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms. 

• Good understanding of, Microservice architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure, SQL and NoSQL databases. 

• Experience working on Networking or Network Security domain is mandatory. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)