Sr. Software Engineer; Python Full Stack Developer

Position: Sr. Software Engineer (Python Full Stack Developer)
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place;

we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Forcepoint is looking for a senior software engineer responsible for architecture, planning, designing, AI assisted development and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products in public cloud.
** Essential Functions*
* • Lead, influence, develop and deliver software engineering solutions across public cloud architecture
• Demonstrate and set standards with regards to software development and delivery
• Demonstrate ownership of software deliverables from to the customer
• Lead and influence the direction of technical decisions in software architecture
• Translate business requirements into specifics cloud services and applications definitions
• Determine the best design and architecture for addressing business problems

Lead the design and implementation phases with a specific focus on mentoring the Software Engineering team members.
• Ensure best practices for success are well defined and followed for cloud services and applications within Forcepoint
• Assists in the development of prototype versions of cloud services and applications.
• Participates in design and code inspections.
• Assist the team in managing their once off and ongoing costings for the services and applications they launch.
• Initiate and delivery technology evaluations and recommendations.
• Participates in design activities by analysing requirements and high-level designs, designs features and components, and documents these within the relevant documentation.
• Maintain a strong understating of the business’ strategic direction.
• Work to strengthen the quality deliverables by reviewing test plans and recommending testing strategies.  
** Required Skills and Background*
* • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering and 10+ years of experience.
• Proven background as a Software Engineer, ideally within the cloud services and application space
• Experience in Public Cloud technologies using both IaaS and PaaS capabilities
• Self-motivated and driven individual
• Excellent documentation and communication skills both within formal and informal settings.
• Strong experience with modern engineering processes such as Agile and Scrum.
• Experience of the full cloud services life cycles from requirements to development to quality to operations and production.
• Ability to provide complete and measurable feedback to others in a positive manner.
• Keeps up to date on current and future technologies within the cloud services and security in general.
• Proficiency in a number of programming languages with expertise in at least 2 programming languages (e.g. JAVA, C, C++, C#, Python, Perl, Assembler, Go, and others), as well as some of the supporting technologies (e.g. full expertise in Web APIs and protocols like TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, DNS, HTTP, SMTP.
• Demonstrated experience developing on a Linux/Unix platform. Writing unit tests and reviews unit tests of others. Creating a test strategy that includes all quadrants of the Agile Testing Quadrant for all development work including bug fixes
• Strong understanding of the product(s), including its business aspects, customer use cases, and end-to-end architecture
• The capability of designing and driving implementation of features that span the entire product and require collaboration of multiple architectural teams
• The capability of technically leading small teams of 2-4 engineers to deliver larger and more complex features
• Be a confident presenter on your subject matter expertise with the ability to present internally across the business and externally to customers  
** Nice to have*
* • Experience working with large enterprise customers.
Kubernetes
• Public Cloud certification
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