Senior Software Engineer

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. Key objectives include developing yourself by learning robust processes using agile methodologies and working with globally distributed teams, ensuring strong software engineering discipline, mentoring other engineers, upholding standards for cloud security services, leveraging AI-assisted development, and maintaining an open environment of collaboration, transparency, innovation, and fun.

Responsibilities

Develop yourself by learning robust processes using agile methodologies and working with globally distributed teams with asynchronous communication across diverse cultures and time zones; Ensure that you understand the vision, are held accountable, meet commitments, and maintain strong software engineering discipline; Mentor other engineers and continue to develop command over all aspects of delivering high-quality software; Uphold standards and maturity levels of running world class security services in cloud by designing secure, reliable, and scalable cloud managed security services; Contribute to the effective use of Cursor AI and AI-assisted development practices; Maintain an open environment of collaboration, transparency, innovation, and fun for positive teamwork; Take ownership and decisions, guide execution, show initiative and commitment, apply analytical and logical thinking, leverage AI-assisted development, demonstrate curiosity, and maintain teamwork

Requirements

Passionate, solutions-oriented, SDLC-driven full stack Senior Software Engineer; Significant professional experience in tech in an agile setup; Strong technical skills and experience in different technologies with Python as the principal programming language; Comfortable with JIRA, Confluence, Test-Driven Design, AWS (Amazon Web Services); Built and deployed numerous large-scale and high-performance cloud-based services; Equally at ease with cloud back-end and front-end technologies

Nice to have

Hands-on experience using Cursor AI and other AI-assisted development tools; Experience with Cursor AI and related tools is a plus