Sophos
Software Engineer
Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$95k-$159kDetected 90 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactBackend DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsNoSQLAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDGraphQLRESTMachine LearningComputer VisionCybersecurityDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseTest AutomationResearchCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, ship, and maintain features end-to-end in TypeScript across React frontends and backend services, with guidance from senior engineers on more complex initiatives.
- Own delivery of project-level work with moderate guidance - from breakdown and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release iteration.
- Design and implement APIs that query, aggregate, and serve data reliably at scale.
- Build and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), following established team patterns.
- Serve as an on-call first responder for the services your team owns
- triage, debug, and resolve production issues, then drive durable fixes and improvements.
- Create test plans for the features you build and contribute to automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) to enable safe, frequent releases.
- Conduct peer reviews of code, designs, test plans, and documentation, providing constructive feedback that raises team quality and adheres to engineering standards.
- Use modern AI coding tools to accelerate delivery while continuing to build the deep engineering foundations needed to grow into a senior engineer.
- Serve as an on-call first responder for the services your team owns; triage, debug, and resolve production issues, then drive durable fixes and improvements.
Requirements
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including basic schema design and query work.
- Experience writing automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) and giving high-signal code reviews.
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems, scope work, and reason through trade-offs with limited guidance.
- Track record of consistently delivering on time and to agreed quality.
- comfort mentoring more junior engineers and sharing knowledge openly.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript and a modern frontend framework (React preferred).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK).
Skills
- Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks.
- Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Compensation
- In Canada, the base salary for this role ranges from $95,000 to $159,000.
Benefits
- Experience using AI-assisted developer tools to improve productivity and learning velocity.
- Improve the developer experience by enhancing tooling, test coverage, and code structure (
- Curiosity, continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership over the code and systems you build.
Company info
- Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services.
- Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
- defeat cyberattacks and protect organizations around the world.
- We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Security features team and help build the systems that make that mission possible.
- In this role, you will work as part of a fast-paced, high-performing engineering team that designs, architects, and builds systems from the ground up.
- This position is for an engineer who has a few years of professional experience under their belt and is ready to take ownership of meaningful work with moderate guidance.
- You'll partner with senior engineers on more complex problems, mentor more junior teammates, serve as an on-call first responder for the services your team owns, and help raise the bar on quality and developer experience across the team.
- We value curiosity, flexibility, and creative problem solving, and we're committed to helping engineers continue to grow into senior technical leaders.
- Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies - including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM.
- Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business.
- Role Summary At Sophos, our mission is clear: defeat cyberattacks and protect organizations around the world.
Visa & Work Authorization
- While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Sophos's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.