Golang Software Engineer

You will join the significant R&D teams in Cambridge that create and improve the products behind the company’s rapid growth. Our software engineers work across a wide variety of projects and with a diverse toolset.

This is a hybrid role, and the expectation would be to work a minimum of 2 days a week in the Cambridge office.

What will I be doing:

As an engineer, your role will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Rapid prototyping of new and innovative ideas to further improve Darktrace’s services and offerings on existing products,
• Building and maintaining greenfield services,
• Researching and implementing features that align with the Cloud Security product feature set,
• Investigating and furthering our unique methodology in defending against unknown cyber-attacks,
• Innovation is of paramount importance and as such, creativity in approach is encouraged as much as traditional project-based development.

What experience do I need:

We welcome applications from engineers who have a solution focused mindset combined with an analytical approach and problem-solving skills. During the interview process you’ll be able to demonstrate your ability to program using Golang/Python and will show an understanding of writing code in a production environment. Additionally, it’s likely that you’ll be:

• Comfortable working autonomously and taking independent decisions as well as having the ability to work cooperatively within a team,
• Experience working with microservice architectures and building monitoring/observability metrics,
• Understanding of cloud native landscapes (AWS or Azure or GCP),
• Knowledgeable of containerized environments would be beneficial(Docker or Kubernetes).

Benefits we offer:

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service,
• Additional day off for your birthday,
• Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children,
• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary,
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme,
• Enhanced family leave,
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program,
• Cycle to work scheme.

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