Software Engineer II – Data Platform Team
The driving force behind Big Data at Mimecast
Dive into the forefront of innovation with our Data Platform engineering team, where we process massive volumes of data to delight our customers with insights they love! Our pioneering Data Platform pushes on the boundaries of what’s possible, leveraging the latest technologies and tooling in AWS.
Why Join Our Team?
“If you’re interested in solving customer data challenges at immense scale, the Data Platform team is for you. Our AWS services process billions of events from millions of users each day. With efficient storage and querying capabilities, we’re able to serve requests in milliseconds when querying over huge volumes of data!” – Hiring Manager
What You’ll Do:
As a Software Engineer II in the Data Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in developing, and maintaining scalable systems. Your responsibilities will include:
- Implement scalable and reliable microservices on AWS infrastructure.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and professional growth.
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for architectures, processes, and procedures.
- Provide support during critical incidents and implement preventive measures.
- Monitor and analyze AWS usage, providing recommendations for cost savings without compromising system performance and reliability.
- Craft resilient, secure, and efficient code, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.
What You’ll Bring:
- Demonstratable ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment, mentoring junior team members and contributing to a positive team culture.
- Experience with Java development to build services and libraries with Java 11 and above.
- Experience in developing and supporting backend systems for data processing within AWS.
- Hands-on experience with foundational AWS services, such as; ALB, ECS, S3, ElastiCache, IAM, CloudWatch.
- Knowledge of implementing and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven services.
- Proficiency in either relational or NoSQL databases, with an understanding of database design, optimization, and management.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Knowledge of Jenkins and developing CI/CD pipelines.
What We Bring:
Join our Data Platform team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. 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!
We believe in ‘growth that’s good, we have ‘a culture that cares’ and we are on a ‘mission that matters’.
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!
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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.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world.
Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
