Sophos4mo ago

Principal Software Engineer (Network/ Network Security domain)

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About Us Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services.

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About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

Our Sophos ZTNA Team is looking for developers who possess excellent programming skills and have prior experience in network security field. We are looking for a backend developer for managing and advancing our cloud-based network security platform that handles tens of thousands of devices and customers. You will build features from the ground up using sound design principles around security and scale.

Be able to interact with product managers to define the feature and write clear functional specs.

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 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, with hands-on leadership across business, application, data, and technology domains

5+ years’ experience working with commercial software using Golang/C/C++/Java.

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

Data plane experience working with Forward/Reverse proxy is preferred

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 Network Security domain is mandatory.

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