Software Engineer 1

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.

At Sophos, our mission is clear: defeat cyberattacks and protect organizations around the world. We are seeking a Junior Software Engineer to join our Security features team and help build the systems that make that mission possible.

 

In this role, you will work as part of a fast-paced, high-performing engineering team that designs, architects, and builds systems from the ground up. You’ll work on real production code that protects customers at scale and gain hands-on experience throughout the software development lifecycle - from understanding requirements, to implementing, testing, and deploying out new features.

 

This position is for someone early in their career, who is excited to learn by doing. As a Junior Software Engineer, we will guide you through breaking down complex problems and translating their solutions into clean, production-ready code. As you grow, you’ll develop strong systems-level thinking and gain confidence debugging issues, improving existing systems, and building new services from scratch.

 

Overall, we value curiosity, flexibility, and creative problem solving, and are committed to helping new hires build the foundations they need to grow into strong software engineers.