Lead and mentor a team of firmware developers in designing and delivering embedded software solutions for wireless access points while ensuring integration with hardware and managing technical strategy.
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
As a Principal Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in the design, development, and delivery of embedded software solutions for cutting-edge wireless access points. You will lead and mentor a team of firmware developers while driving the technical strategy and ensuring the successful integration of firmware with hardware components. This position requires a deep understanding of wireless technologies, advanced problem-solving skills, and a strong commitment to innovation and quality.
These wireless access points are managed from the cloud as well, and this role gives immense opportunity to work on cloud technologies as well.
What you will do
- Technical Leadership: Lead the architecture, design, and development of firmware for wireless access points, setting technical direction and ensuring adherence to best practices.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and product management, to define product requirements and develop long-term technology strategies.
- Advanced Problem Solving: Lead the resolution of complex technical challenges, including low-level debugging, performance optimization, and integration with advanced hardware components.
- Protocol & Security Leadership: Drive the implementation and optimization of wireless networking protocols (e.g., 802.11 standards) and ensure robust security features, including encryption, authentication, and secure boot processes.
- Innovation & Optimization: Identify and implement opportunities for innovation in firmware design, focusing on performance improvements, power efficiency, and scalability of wireless access point solutions.
- Quality Assurance: Oversee the development and execution of rigorous testing and validation processes to ensure the highest levels of firmware quality and reliability.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary technical liaison between the firmware team and other stakeholders, effectively communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives for continuous improvement of development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance productivity and product quality.
What you will bring
- 10 to 15 years of total work experience and 2+ years working as a Principal engineer
- Proficiency in Java and Spring boot framework
- Excellent design skills using principles of reuse, modularity, scale, etc.
- Excellent understanding of Data Structures and algorithms.
- Good understanding of, Microservice architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure, terraform, SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in building Network Security and/or Wireless applications in high performance environments.
- Should have experience with the integration of REST APIs.
- Good to have knowledge of authentication and authorization frameworks.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
- Demonstrate passion, desire, and dedication to ongoing learning.
- Proactive, flexible attitude towards work with a willingness to constantly review and improve skills and processes.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Software, Computer Science, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Understanding of Frontend with Angular, react will be added advantage.
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What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· 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 who 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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AWS
Java
Microservice Architecture
NoSQL
React
Rest Apis
Spring Boot
SQL
Terraform
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