Senior Software Engineer

Who You are:

You are a passionate, solutions-oriented, SDLC-driven full stack Senior Software Engineer who has significant professional experience in tech in an agile setup and is up for a challenge. You come with strong technical skills and experience in different technologies and Python as the principal programming languages, and you love building secure and quality software.

You are more than comfortable with JIRA, Confluence, Test-Driven Design, AWS (Amazon Web Services) and have built and deployed numerous large-scale and high-performance cloud-based services and are equally at ease with both cloud back-end and front-end technologies. It is preferred that you have hands-on experience using Cursor AI and other AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and maintainability.

You are inquisitive, you love learning, you know how to get to the right answers even if you do not know them to start with. You listen carefully and voice your challenges and progress to your leaders. You have the knack for innovation; you are driven by the desire to help our customers/partners succeed. You also embody the other human values that we care about most (accountability, belonging, bias for action) and you know that people matter most.

What to expect as a “Senior Software Engineer” in WatchGuard:

The Senior Software Engineer role in WatchGuard engineering team is perfectly suited for strong technical folks who are creative, motivated, curious, and good listener, and as you ramp up in your responsibilities you would be critical in helping us achieve the following main objectives:

• Develop yourself by learning more robust processes using agile methodologies and working with globally distributed teams with asynchronous communication across diverse cultures and time zones. Your team depends upon your input and guidance.
• Ensure that you understand the vision, are held accountable, meet commitments, consider choices for high-performance and resilient software, and have strong software engineering discipline (test-driven design, unit test code coverage, automation, staying on top of OSS compliance and vulnerabilities, monitoring focused, secure coding practices, etc.).
• Mentor other engineers and continue to develop command over all aspects of delivering high-quality software (design, documentation, unit tests, code reviews, security, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, etc.) built on top of microservices architecture (both containerized and serverless) using misc. relational (SQL / MySQL / Postgres etc.) and NoSQL (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch / Document DB / DynamoDB etc.) database technologies.
• Uphold our standards and maturity levels of running world class security services in cloud by designing more secure, reliable, and scalable cloud managed security services (architecture and infrastructure wise).
• Where applicable, contribute to the effective use of Cursor AI and AI-assisted development practices-sharing workflows and helping leverage these tools responsibly to improve productivity without compromising quality or security.
• Maintain an open environment of collaboration, transparency, innovation, and fun for positive teamwork.

A Typical “Day in the Life of a Senior Software Engineer” in WatchGuard:

The Senior Software Engineer is seen at WatchGuard as a motivated, creative, and curious developer with strong engineering discipline who is always willing to learn modern technologies and techniques. The Senior Software Engineer takes ownership of the development process and collaborates with other junior engineers to mentor and guide them. To evolve in your career and execute excellent work, you need to show following important characteristics on a day-to-day basis:

• Taking ownership and decisions: You are expected to demonstrate effective technical leadership, take decisions, drive the development activities and the team in the right direction. It is possible that in your role you may be involved with more than one project at the same time, and being the owner means that you must assume responsibility for what you and your teams are doing. You will also be engaging with product management and customer support to understand customer feedback and needs.
• Guiding execution: The projects you are working on are complex and sometimes multi-faceted. They will require strong technical skills but also soft skills. You should be able to influence and drive the team and your work to deliver excellence in a predictable time.
• Showing initiative and commitment: You are now part of an experienced and strong group of engineers, but there is still a lot to learn and while you are learning it is important that you do not wait for anything to get your hands, you need to have initiative to pursue the activities and commitment in finish them before the next challenge.
• Applying analytical and logical mind: You will write solutions to solve real problems for our customers. So, you need to understand our customers and what is important for them. You should not just follow instructions, you must comprehend what you are doing, ask questions, bring suggestions, and find the best solution to deliver what is required.
• Leveraging AI-assisted development (preferred): Experience with Cursor AI and related tools is a plus-using them to explore solutions, accelerate implementation, and improve code quality, and helping others adopt these practices effectively with sound engineering judgment.
• Demonstrating curiosity and genuine interest in learning: You will be in contact with more senior engineers and architects as well as working in a complex environment and product. So, you will have the opportunity to gain experience all the time and it is imperative that you have an interest in evolving with the daily experience and becoming a stronger engineer tomorrow.
• Maintaining teamwork and collaboration: You will be collaborating with a team to deliver something important to our customers and build a safer world. So, you are not alone, and it is important for you to think collectively, helping others around you and demonstrating gratitude to your colleagues for helping you. For that you must have strong empathy and be able to communicate clearly and efficiently.