Senior Software Engineer - Threat Reporting & Response team

Senior Software Engineer – Threat Reporting & Response Team (TRR)

The driving force behind Threat Analytics and Intelligence at Mimecast

Mimecast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer experienced in cloud application development to join our new team in Bangalore. The purpose of the team is to design, implement and operate the next generation of Mimecast products whilst contributing to the underlying Mimecast Platform.

Why Join Our Team?

“If you’re interested in solving technical challenges at immense scale, the TRR team is for you. Our AWS services process billions of events from millions of users each day!” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer in the TRR team, you will play a pivotal role in developing, and maintaining scalable systems. You will be passionate about designing and developing new features and enhancements to make the applications perform better, improve efficacy and resilience. While we work on making a resilient and scalable solution, you will also be required to handle incidents and, most importantly, protect customers by minimising impacts on them by maintaining effective and swift communication and providing quick solutions in high pressure situations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build state of the art services that enable our customers to protect their organisations against modern security threats.
• Craft products for rapid delivery in an Agile development environment using DevOps practices.
• Help identify improvements and promote positive change within working groups and individuals.
• Mentor others in your areas of expertise
• Highlight and drive improvements to the Software Engineering Environment
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for one or more product/feature sets or Engineering domains.
• Work closely with Product Management, UX designers, and the larger engineering team to deliver quality products.
• Collaborate with the team to come up with technical designs and solutions with adequate documentation.
• Work closely with the team, principals and Architects to discuss solution and implementation strategy.
• Take full ownership of projects from design to implementation and deployment.
• Write quality code to meet business needs and quality standards.
• Help maintain the platform by fixing bugs and issues coming from the operational pipeline.
• Perform code reviews of fellow developers.
• Champion best practices and enable and support more junior members of the team.

What You’ll Bring:

• Previous experience in similar role as Software Developer.
• Strong skills in Java 8 and above or similar programming language.
• Experience leveraging public cloud development and tools such as AWS, Docker and Terraform.
• Experience designing & building APIs & Micro-Services.
• Deep understanding of the Object-Oriented programming patterns and best practices.
• Knowledge of the web platform as a whole e.g. React, Angular, JavaScript, HTTP/S, web performance, web security, frameworks).
• Experience of working with Message Queues e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Defensive coding practices and awareness of OWASP Top 10 and similar security vulnerabilities.
• Excellent communication skills and evidence of successful collaboration with designers and product owners.
• Passion for tackling complexity with simplicity and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.
• Ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others.
• Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive.
• A sense of urgency and ownership over the product.

What We Bring

Join our TRR team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on the job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

We believe in ‘growth that’s good, we have ‘a culture that cares’ and we are on 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 the office at least two 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 priorities outside of their immediate realm.
• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

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DEI Statement

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.