As a Senior Software Engineer reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will design, build, and enhance our customer-facing portal and related web experiences, delivering features and improvements that bring direct value to our users.
You will focus on the portal’s user interface, responsive interfaces, workflows, and integrations, working closely with the backend and platform teams. When the product direction includes intelligent features, you will help bring AI-assisted experiences into the portal (for example, integrating AI-powered APIs, copilot-style features, or machine learning–driven insights), with attention to usability, reliability, and performance.
You are also expected to use AI-assisted development tools as part of your day-to-day work, responsibly and in line with team standards, to improve productivity, explore solutions, and ship quality code faster.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather requirements, design, develop, test, and ship portal features while collaborating in a dynamic and results-driven environment.
- Lead and contribute to portal development using React, TypeScript, and JavaScript, including component architecture, state management, routing, and integration with REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding assistants, code generation, refactoring, or test suggestions) as part of the engineering workflow, while validating outputs, preserving security and privacy, and following code review and organizational policies.
- Take an active role in mentoring junior engineers.
- Make a direct impact on the success of WatchGuard as a company.
- Participate in an on-call rotation approximately once every 2 months.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 5+ years of professional experience in front-end development, including significant production experience with React.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES modules, async patterns, typing for scalable user interfaces).
- Familiarity with applying AI tools across the software development lifecycle (e.g., for implementation, debugging, documentation, or code reviews), with sound judgment regarding verification, security, and intellectual property.
- 2–4 years of experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms (e.g., front-end hosting, CDN, serverless APIs, or consuming cloud services from browser-based applications).
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code or deployment tools (e.g., Terraform, Serverless, or Ansible) as they relate to environments and releases.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL (e.g., understanding data models for portal features or working with backend teams on queries and performance).
- Proven track record of building highly automated, cloud-based systems and customer-facing experiences.
- Desire to contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Innovative and passionate mindset, ability to overcome technical challenges in a cooperative environment, commitment to fast delivery, and familiarity with agile software development practices.
- Ability to handle ambiguity, communicate well with partner teams, and an empathetic understanding of the customer experience.
- Proficiency in writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for front-end applications (and collaborating on API contracts, when applicable).
- Passion for building scalable, maintainable code that supports system growth and future readiness.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional front-end development experience, including significant production experience with React
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript
- Familiarity with AI tools across the software development lifecycle, including verification, security, and intellectual property considerations
- 2-4 years of experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code or deployment tools such as Terraform, Serverless, or Ansible
- Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience building highly automated, cloud-based systems and customer-facing experiences
- Experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for front-end applications
- Ability to collaborate on API contracts when applicable
- Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing skills
- Familiarity with agile software development practices
- Ability to handle ambiguity and understand customer experience
- Ability to build scalable and maintainable code
WatchGuard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about WatchGuard and has not been reviewed or approved by WatchGuard.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support. Feedback suggests plan breadth and quality are a recurring bright spot.
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Parental & Family Support — Caregiver benefits include paid parental leave, backup care, adoption assistance, fertility coverage, and, in some locales, subsidized childcare. Feedback suggests these supports meaningfully enhance the total package for families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO and holidays are emphasized alongside options like paid sick time and volunteer time. Feedback suggests time off provisions contribute to a favorable work-life balance.
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What We Do
WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in unified cybersecurity. Our Unified Security Platform® approach is uniquely designed for managed service providers to deliver world-class security that increases their business scale and velocity while also improving operational efficiency. Trusted by more than 17,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers, the company’s award-winning products and services span network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Together, they offer five critical elements of a security platform: comprehensive security, shared knowledge, clarity & control, operational alignment, and automation. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit WatchGuard.com.
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