Sr. Software Engineer (Python Full Stack Developer)

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Forcepoint is looking for a senior software engineer responsible for architecture, planning, designing, AI assisted development and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products in public cloud.

Essential Functions

•   Lead, influence, develop and deliver software engineering solutions across public cloud architecture

•   Demonstrate and set standards with regards to software development and delivery

•   Demonstrate ownership of software deliverables from to the customer

•   Lead and influence the direction of technical decisions in software architecture

•   Translate business requirements into specifics cloud services and applications definitions

•  Determine the best design and architecture for addressing business problems

Lead the design and implementation phases with a specific focus on mentoring the Software Engineering team members.

•   Ensure best practices for success are well defined and followed for cloud services and applications within Forcepoint

•  Assists in the development of prototype versions of cloud services and applications.

•  Participates in design and code inspections.

•  Assist the team in managing their once off and ongoing costings for the services and applications they launch.

•  Initiate and delivery technology evaluations and recommendations.

•  Participates in design activities by analysing requirements and high-level designs, designs features and components, and documents these within the relevant documentation.

•  Maintain a strong understating of the business’ strategic direction.

•  Work to strengthen the quality deliverables by reviewing test plans and recommending testing strategies.

Required Skills and Background

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering and 10+ years of experience.

•  Proven background as a Software Engineer, ideally within the cloud services and application space

•  Experience in Public Cloud technologies using both IaaS and PaaS capabilities

•  Self-motivated and driven individual

•  Excellent documentation and communication skills both within formal and informal settings.

•  Strong experience with modern engineering processes such as Agile and Scrum.

• Experience of the full cloud services lifecycles from requirements to development to quality to operations and production.

• Ability to provide complete and measurable feedback to others in a positive manner.

• Keeps up to date on current and future technologies within the cloud services and security in general.

• Proficiency in a number of programming languages with expertise in at least 2 programming languages (e.g. Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript), as well as some of the supporting technologies (e.g. full expertise in Web APIs and protocols like TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, DNS, HTTP, SMTP.

•  Demonstrated experience developing on a Linux/Unix platform. Writing unit tests and reviews unit tests of others. Creating a test strategy that includes all quadrants of the Agile Testing Quadrant for all development work including bug fixes

•  Strong understanding of the product(s), including its business aspects, customer use cases, and end-to-end architecture

•  The capability of designing and driving implementation of features that span the entire product and require collaboration of multiple architectural teams

•   The capability of technically leading small teams of 2-4 engineers to deliver larger and more complex features

•  Be a confident presenter on your subject matter expertise with the ability to present internally across the business and externally to customers

Nice to have

•  Experience working with large enterprise customers.

   Kubernetes

•  Public Cloud certification

•  AWS technologies

•  Understanding of security concepts: encryption, secure application development, defensive programming, software vulnerabilities and exploits, general issues in web security.

•  Experience in telemetry systems such as grafana. 

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

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