As a Software Engineer II (SE2) in the Identity team, you will play a key role in building and evolving our ITDR (Identity Threat Detection and Response) product. This role is suited for an experienced engineer who can independently design and deliver well-scoped features, contribute to technical decisions, and uphold high engineering standards.
You will work primarily in Go (Golang), developing scalable, reliable, and secure backend services that operate in a distributed, cloud-first environment. You will collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to deliver identity services such as authentication, authorisation, identity lifecycle, and policy enforcement.
What you will do
Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
Build and enhance identity-related services (e.g. authentication, authorisation, user and service identities, token management, policy enforcement).
Contribute to system design and technical discussions, helping shape service architecture and implementation approaches.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, following best practices in software engineering and secure development.
Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring high code quality across the team.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, security, SRE, and other engineering teams.
Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in production systems, participating in on-call rotations as required.
- Continuously improve engineering processes, tooling, and system observability.
What you will bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 2-4 yrs of strong professional experience as a backend software engineer, consistent with an SE2-level role.
- Hands-on experience developing production systems using Go (Golang).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, concurrency, and performance considerations.
- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Preferred Skills:
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and core software engineering principles.
Experience working in the Identity, Authentication, or Access Management domain.
Relevant experience with working on Microsoft Entra or similar identity providers
Familiarity with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWTs, and modern identity protocols.
Experience designing and operating highly available, low-latency microservices.
Knowledge of security best practices, threat modelling, and secure coding techniques.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 2-4 years of experience as a backend software engineer
- Hands-on experience developing production systems using Go (Golang)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, concurrency, and performance consideration
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.
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What We Do
Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
