Senior Software Engineer II (Platform Engineering)

Sophos

146d • $149,000 - $248,000

About The Position

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.

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 and an ability to work through problems and get stakeholders and team mates to align.

Nice To Haves

• Running distributed systems in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS.
• Deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads and designing microservice applications.
• Familiarity with Temporal.io or Cadenceworkflow.io.
• Remote work with a geographically distributed team.
• DevOps / SRE practices such as CI/CD, infra as code, production monitoring.
• Working with 'best of breed' Cloud technologies (Kafka, Elastic Search, high throughput event processing, cloud-scale data analytics, etc).
• Troubleshooting large scale, cloud-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop, design and implement software components with test coverage and automation, delivered against project timescales, quality and security requirements.
• 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. Lead tradeoff analysis to select the proper tool for the job at hand.
• 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 for your teams’ and related client-facing systems as part of the response management team.
• Provide support and mentorship for team members, especially regarding software components and processes you work with. Review and provide feedback on work products, software components, and processes.
• 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.

Benefits

• Remote-first working model.
• 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 for employees.
• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees