Sophos

Senior Software Engineer (Java and AWS)

Sophos • IN
Hybrid
About Us
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.

Role Summary 


Our Sophos Central Management (CM) Team is looking for developers who possess excellent programming skills and have prior experience in the 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. 
 
Sophos CM team builds a cloud-based management solution for Sophos Firewalls, enabling customers to securely configure, monitor, and manage distributed firewall deployments individually or in groups. The team is responsible for designing and delivering highly available, performance-driven microservices, ensuring seamless integration with Sophos Central, and providing enterprise-grade visibility and control. We work in an agile environment, driving innovation in network security and cloud management. 

What you will do

  • Be able to interact with product managers and Senior Leads 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 features for the product roadmap.
  • Work with Junior developer as a lead to ensure timely delivery and technical assistance 
  • What you will bring

    • 7+ years of overall experience
    • Hands-on experience developing commercial software using Java and Spring Boot.
    • Experience with Golang is a plus 
    • Strong design expertise with a focus on reusability, modularity, and scalability 
    • Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms 
    • Good knowledge of microservices architecture, along with SQL and NoSQL databases 
    • Proven experience with AWS cloud infrastructure is mandatory 
    • Experience in the network security domain and protocols is required 
    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field