Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python)- HP Wolf Security in Cambridge

We are looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our engineering team in Cambridge. You will be working on the HP Wolf Security Cloud Service - a web-based platform to manage our security software products that are installed on end-user PCs. The HP Wolf Security Cloud Service is composed of several different services that serve various roles in the architecture, and you'll be trusted to suggest and investigate then deliver new ideas.

What you will do as a Senior Backend Software Engineer:

• The API and UI back-end (Python, Django, Django REST Framework)
• The background worker service / task queues (Celery, Dramatiq)
• Container-based packaging (Linux, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Docker)
• Supporting operational deployment using AWS (S3, ECS, RDS, etc.)
• Integrations with other cloud systems (Elastic/Kibana, Salesforce, InterWorks, Azure, other internal HP systems) maintaining product compatibility for customers' self-hosted, on-premise servers (Windows, IIS, SQL Server)
• Unit tests, Playwright/Selenium tests, automated installation tests, static code analysis, anything else we can have the CI system (Jenkins) do for us

About the HP Wolf Security Controller:

The HP Wolf Security Controller provides security policy and software updates for the endpoint security product installed on the client PCs. It also receives status, events and threat data from these clients, including malware traces which are used to produce interactive visualisations in the web-based UI and summarised in reports. The Controller is deployed at scale, both on-premises at individual corporate enterprises with tens of thousands of clients, and in the cloud across hundreds of AWS instances. We're continuing to scale further, while also adding support for new products and enhancing existing features.

The HP Wolf Security Portal is the unifying service for customers accessing the capabilities provided by HP Wolf Security on endpoints. Integrating with different SSO providers (Azure AD, HP ID) for authentication, it enables self-service onboarding for entitlement to HP Wolf Security endpoint software. For small-medium businesses or consumers it provides a simplified license management and configuration portal, whereas for larger customers it provides integrated access to their own dedicated Controller. It has features to support partners and our HP support teams to help customers onboard and manage their HP Wolf Security products.

There may also be an opportunity to work on other supporting cloud services where some make use of Go, along with others using our typical stack.

What it's like:

As part of a small, focused, and talented team you'll get the support to deliver high quality, reliable work & you'll be trusted to suggest, investigate and deliver new ideas. And you will also work on hybrid basis from our office in Cambridge.

Technical requirements for the Senior Backend Software Engineer:

• Proven experience working with Python for web applications
• Successful experience of designing scalable web services
• Experience in tuning and optimising SQL queries, indices and other techniques to get the best performance out of the DBMS
• Understanding of ORM web frameworks
• Understanding of HTTP, caching, performance tradeoffs
• Understanding of web security issues and how to design to avoid them
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

A great Senior Backend Software Engineer will have:

• Experience designing and deploying cloud services at scale
• Experience using distributed task queue systems, such as Celery
• Some experience in front-end development

About HP Wolf Security:

The primary focus of the HP Wolf Security team is developing cyber security solutions to protect our customers devices and data. The digital threat landscape is ever-changing and as the cyber security industry reacts and adapts to changes, so too do the malware authors. Our unique micro-virtualization technology ensures that customers are protected from even the most bleeding edge cyber security threats. That micro-virtualization technology forms a key pillar in a wider cyber security suite that we're actively developing.

Our history:

Inspired by the isolation principles of traditional virtualization, our team known then as Bromium, created a game-changing technology called micro-virtualization to protect end users against advanced malware. Every task the user performs, such as opening a document or clicking on a link, is isolated in its own micro-VM, with access to just the resources required for that task, and existing just for the life of the task. Protection is thus provided through isolation, without relying on detection, hence reliably defending the user from polymorphic and even zero-day malware.

Bromium was acquired by HP Inc on 19 September 2019 forming HP Wolf Security.