Sr. Software Engineer

Location: BANGALORE EMBASSY TECH VILLAGE, India

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

Senior Software Engineer - Python

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to the ongoing design, development and maintenance of runtime security agent-based products and proof of concept prototypes

• Investigate, perform root cause analysis, and solve complex issues identified in the field

• Perform all the tasks required of a software developer within an Agile SDLC

• Prioritize code quality with comprehensive and effective code reviews, and targeted unit and integration test coverage

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of developers, product managers and quality engineers, pre-sales engineers and field support engineers

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development within the Python ecosystem

• Natural curiosity, initiative and creativity in problem solving

• Solid grasp of both fundamental and advanced software development concepts in Python, including module handling, concurrency (threading, multiprocessing), asynchronous development and application packaging (pip, setuptools, etc.)

• Fluidity developing Python software and working with virtualization and version dependencies

• Experience with WSGI (Flask, Django, etc.) and ASGI Web Servers & Frameworks (FastAPI, etc.)

• Proficient at profiling, optimizing, and debugging server-side Python code

• Experience with nox, tox or other Python testing framework

• Experience working with containerized environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of design patterns and an understanding of software development best practices

• Understanding of git best practices

• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences

• B.Tech or Masters (M.Tech/M.E) in Computer science or related degree

Preferred experience

• Familiarity with the ctypes module, cffi library or other techniques to achieve interoperability with native applications and libraries

• Understanding how software security exploits work and experience building software that mitigates them

• Significant experience with at least one other development language (JavaScript, PHP, Java, C/C++, Go, etc.)

• Experience with performance testing tools and techniques

• Experience with penetration testing tools and techniques

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