Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by threat intelligence, AI and machine learning from SophosLabs and SophosAI, Sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing and the wide range of other cyberattacks. Sophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, Sophos Central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendors. Sophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos has major hubs around the globe. More information is available at www.sophos.com

Role Summary

The Senior Performance Engineer drives the optimization of the Sophos Central web services and websites, as well as designing, implements, and maintaining performance monitoring tools that help enable other engineers to discover and mitigate performance issues in their code.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and maintain performance monitoring tools
• Work with development teams to design performance test strategies
• Execute component and system-level performance tests
• Participate as part of a team in design and implementation, leveraging modern design patterns to achieve better performance, scalability, and overall stability of applications
• Analyze metrics and code to uncover performance regressions and opportunities for optimization, and work with teams across the organization to speed things up.
• Ability to work effectively with UX, PM, DevOps, QE and other developers to advocate for performance improvements
• Proven ability to find, troubleshoot, and fix performance issues that span multiple systems.
• Technically curious to stay up to date with advances in technology
• Experience with best of breed Cloud technologies (NoSQL, high throughput event processing, cloud-scale data analytics, etc)

What You Will Bring

• Through knowledge of Java, Groovy, Scala, or similar languages
• Experience integrating performance tools into CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins, Travis CI)
• Experience using performance tooling (JMeter, SOASTA, Gatling, Load Runner)
• Experience with real-user/synthetic performance monitoring (Catchpoint, Navigation / Resource Timing API, webpage test, SiteSpeed)
• Experience in Cloud computing(AWS)
• Experience/Knowledge with Agile Software Development methodologies
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to design and write high-quality code
• Understand how products and technologies interface with each other and fit with the strategy and business needs
• Evaluation of technical and functional specifications and their cohesion
• Work well on a team

Applicants in Colorado, California, Washington, and New York City may email TalentAcquisition@sophos.com for the up-to-date salary ranges for the position.

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What's Great About Sophos?

• Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
• Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
• Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
• Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
• Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants that can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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