Senior Software Engineer - Threat Reporting & Response

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

Mimecast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer experienced in cloud application development to join our team in London. 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?

“At Mimecast we operate a Cloud based, highly available, high-volume transaction, scalable Cyber Reliance platform. All this happens in a state of the art and complex technical environment that is run by some of the best technologists in their subject field. If you’re interested in solving technical challenges at immense scale, the TRR team is for you.– 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:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based identity and access management solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Write clean, well-designed, and efficient code following established coding standards and principles.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Optimize performance and scalability through continuous improvement and refactoring.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues and provide timely resolution to technical problems.
• Mentor junior engineers, provide technical guidance, and promote knowledge sharing within the team.

What You’ll Bring:

• Proven experience in designing, developing, and maintaining Java backend services and libraries.
• Good experience with identity and access management solutions.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding and experience with AWS main services and features, such as Lambda, IAM, S3, DynamoDB, VPCs, Route53, Secrets Manager…
• Experience with API Gateways (e.g. GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

• Experience with Infrastructure as code, Familiarity with tools like Terraform is a plus

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.                    

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!

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.