Senior Software Engineer
About Mimecast
Mimecast is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to protecting more than 42000 customers from the escalating landscape of digital threats. Mimecast has transitioned from traditional email security to unified Human Risk Management platform, designed to secure the modern collaborative workspace – spanning Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and beyond. By integrating advanced AI-powered detection with deep behavioural insights, Mimecast identifies and mitigates risks as the “human layer”, where technology and user behaviour intersect.
Why Join Our Team?
Are you passionate about building robust, scalable systems that make a real impact? At Governance, Compliance & Insights, you’ll join a collaborative team tackling the unique challenges of enterprise data back-up & recovery. Here, your ideas matter, your code shapes the future, and your work directly improves how global businesses safeguard their most valuable assets.
Mimecast is an AI-First engineering organization. Our teams actively leverage AI-powered development tools across all facets of engineering, from code development to testing, documentation, and operations.
What You’ll Do
As a Senior Software Engineer (with backend specialization), you will play a pivotal role within the GCI team.
In this role, you will:
- Develop and maintain robust, high-performance Java-based APIs
- Design and implement cloud-native backend services on AWS across serverless (Lambda, API Gateway) and containerized (ECS/EKS) platforms
- Architect and evolve distributed, event-driven systems for high-throughput processing, resilience, and scalability
- Lead technical design discussions, code reviews, and production troubleshooting to uphold engineering excellence
- Define and improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and deployment strategies for reliable cloud delivery
What You’ll Bring
- Have 9+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering.
- Expert-level proficiency with Java (21+), modern Java frameworks and libraries, and deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Strong experience with AWS services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, and API Gateway.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and RESTful APIs at scale.
- Experience working with relational databases (SQL) and understanding how to optimise queries for performance.
- Working experience with Git and familiarity with Jenkins pipelines.
- Working experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and a drive to understand the “under the hood” mechanics of complex backend systems.
- Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor) to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.
What We Bring
- Mimecast offers an attractive compensation package for the right candidate, including base salary and performance bonus.
- Mimecast also offers formal and on-the-job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package, and fosters a culture that celebrates achievement. We believe in growth that’s good, a culture that cares, and a mission that matters.
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 that office at least 2 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 prioritises outside of their immediate realm.
- Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!
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Belonging at Mimecast
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.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Skills Required
- 9+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering.
- Expert-level proficiency with Java (21+) and modern Java frameworks and libraries.
- Strong experience with AWS services: EKS, ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, API Gateway.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and RESTful APIs at scale.
- Experience working with relational databases (SQL) and optimizing queries for performance.
- Working experience with Git and familiarity with Jenkins pipelines.
- Working experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
- Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor).
- Proactive problem-solving and deep understanding of backend system internals.
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
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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.
