Principal Software Engineer
We’re building a number of Software Development teams to work cross-functionally on the latest cloud infrastructure and platforms to build services providing security for collaboration suites in Bangalore, India.
We’re expanding our global footprint and Bangalore offers a clear opportunity to invest in specialist, diverse and innovative talent in engineering and product management to help us accelerate our growth and achieve our mission.
Why join us? You’ll be getting in at the early stages, playing a key role in shaping the future of Mimecast in India – with the energy and excitement of a start-up environment - but the security and maturity of an established larger organisation with an ambitious vision and mission and investing in people, tech and products.
We want to hear from you if you have a desire to learn and experiment leveraging your prior knowledge and experience. We’re looking for people who are willing to take risks, do things differently and, most importantly, do things better.
Our Backend teams design, implement and operate the next generation of Mimecast products whilst contributing to the underlying Mimecast (X1) Platform. You will work with Architects, Developers, Quality Engineers, and Product Managers to solve interesting problems at scale. You will be deeply engaged and hands-on in the full development lifecycle from designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving our backend platforms and environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Engage in backlog grooming, planning, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Deliver Cloud based services through CI/CD.
- Contribute to reviews of new features or enhancements.
- Engage with the team through collaboration, problem solving, and teamwork.
- Continually improve team efficiency, personal skills, and team skills.
- Learn new technology trends and industry innovations.
- Take initiatives and be resourceful.
- Troubleshoot complex problems and define solutions for how to fix them.
- Take ownership and create accountability within the team.
- Design new features or enhancements based on high-level architectures.
- Lead backlog grooming, planning, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Lead security reviews of designs and implementations.
- Act as a technical lead within the team through collaboration, problem solving and teamwork.
- Apply technology trends and industry innovations to our products.
- Coach and mentor team members on areas of experience.
What You’ll Bring:
- Experience developing Java in a cloud-service or micro-service approach.
- Experience in AWS, particularly DynamoDB, S3/CloudFront, ElastiCache/Redis, OpenSearch, ECS, EC2, load balancing and ASGs, CloudWatch.
- Experience building REST/HTTP microservices in Spring/Spring Boot.
- Strong object-oriented programming skills following SOLID principles.
- Experience using and modifying CI/CD pipelines, Terraform.
- Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Experience with Kafka.
- Knowledge of Domain Driven Design preferred.
- Experience with Elasticsearch and MySQL/MariaDB.
- Experience building high volume, scalable, distributed backend services.
- Willingness to learn and be part of a polyglot squad.
- Experience designing new features based on high-level architectures.
- Experience of software security, security reviews and secure coding.
- Expertise in TDD and delivering quality code and solutions.
- Experience building and working with container-based applications.
- Knowledge on how highly available distributed systems works.
- Familiarity with SMTP and projects like RSPAMD/Post-fix is a plus.
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology.
What We Bring:
Join our CyberGraph team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.
Mimecast offers formal and on the job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!
Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:
- Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning.
- Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams.
- Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm.
- Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community.
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DEI Statement
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world.
Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
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