Senior Software Engineer 1

About this role

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 .
Role Summary

The Senior Software Engineer 1 is responsible for owning medium-complexity engineering initiatives that improve the automation, tooling, cloud infrastructure, and software delivery capabilities that enable Sophos engineering teams to build, test, and deliver cloud-based services reliably, securely, and at scale.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong technical depth across platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and developer tooling. The engineer is expected to lead work from design through production, make sound technical decisions with minimal guidance, improve engineering practices, and mentor less experienced engineers. Success in this role requires balancing software engineering fundamentals with operational excellence while collaborating across engineering, QA, product management, architecture, security, and release teams.

The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, operational reliability, and continuous improvement, communicates effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and leverages approved AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity, documentation, troubleshooting, and engineering quality.

What You Will Do

• Own the end-to-end delivery of medium-complexity platform engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD initiatives from design through production support.

• Design, implement, and improve developer platforms, release automation, and engineering workflows that increase reliability, scalability, and engineering productivity.

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, and related tooling to support cloud-native software delivery.

• Drive improvements to Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) environments, deployment standards, operational readiness, and platform reliability.

• Design, provision, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform while leveraging Ansible, Packer, or similar automation frameworks where appropriate.

• Develop and maintain automation using Python, Groovy, and Bash to eliminate manual work, improve consistency, and simplify operational processes.

• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, QA, product management, security, and release stakeholders to translate business and engineering requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Troubleshoot complex build failures, deployment issues, infrastructure problems, Linux systems, cloud services, Kubernetes workloads, and application runtime behavior using logs, metrics, monitoring, and debugging tools.

• Design technical solutions that balance scalability, reliability, operational complexity, security, and long-term maintainability.

• Improve platform observability through logging, metrics, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting that reduce operational risk and improve service reliability.

• Champion secure engineering practices including secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, DevSecOps integrations, compliance tooling, and least-privilege access.

• Leverage approved AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, scripting, troubleshooting, documentation, code reviews, and operational analysis while applying sound engineering judgment and adhering to security and privacy standards.

• Communicate technical designs, implementation plans, deployment status, risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and operational readiness across engineering teams and stakeholders.

• Participate in operational support and on-call rotations, driving root-cause analysis and long-term improvements that reduce recurring operational issues.

• Mentor Software Engineers and early-career engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing while helping establish engineering best practices.

What You Will Bring

The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native platforms and developer tooling that enable reliable software delivery. This role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, deep Linux expertise, cloud infrastructure experience, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to independently lead engineering initiatives while positively influencing team practices and technical direction.

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Release Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.

• Demonstrated ability to independently own medium-complexity engineering initiatives from design through implementation, validation, production readiness, and operational…