Senior Principal Software Engineer - Email Security

The driving force behind our award-winning Email Security Product at Mimecast

Dive into the forefront of innovation with our Email Security engineering team. Our pioneering Email Security solution pushes on the boundaries of what’s possible, leveraging the latest technologies and tooling in AWS.

Why Join Our Team?

“Join us in tackling email processing challenges at an immense scale with our innovative Email Security team! Our MTA process billions of emails from millions of users on thousands of servers each day!” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do?

As Principal/Senior Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in leading the development of our next-generation cloud-based email product. This role involves hands-on engagement throughout the full development lifecycle, including designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving our core services. You will be responsible for driving technical excellence and innovation within the team while mentoring and coaching junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design new features or enhancements based on high-level architectures.
• Work on a global, highly distributed infrastructure
• High availability, mission critical Java services
• Opportunity to modernize the technology stack
• Lead backlog grooming, planning, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Deliver AWS-based Java services through CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Engage with the team through collaboration, problem-solving, and teamwork.
• Continually improve team efficiency, personal skills, and team skills.
• Take ownership and create accountability within the team.
• Lead security reviews of designs and implementations.
• Act as a technical lead within the team, fostering collaboration and teamwork.
• Apply technology trends and industry innovations to our products.
• Coach and mentor team members in areas of expertise.

Experience

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills following SOLID principles.
• Proficient in Java and experienced in building REST/HTTP microservices.
• Familiarity with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Terraform.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in AWS services.
• Proven ability to build high-volume, scalable, distributed back-end services.
• Proficient in multithreaded software engineering, with expertise in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting concurrent systems to optimize performance and resource utilization
• Proficient in leveraging AI tools, such as Cursor, to enhance software engineering practices, including automated design, code generation, and testing, ensuring high-quality and efficient development workflows.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A great team player with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies
• Continuous learning mindset, keeping abreast of related industry technologies, tools, and standards.

What We Bring

Join our Email Security team to accelerate your career while working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to impactful projects for our customers. 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!

The UK base salary range for this position is £120,000-£180,000 base + benefits. This reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position. This position may also be eligible for bonus, incentive plans, and other related benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. These factors and individual capabilities will also determine the individual pay offered.

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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.