Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning) in Cambridge

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Redgate creates simple software to help data professionals get the most value out of any database. Our solutions solve complex database management challenges across the DevOps lifecycle, making life easier for IT leaders, development, and operations teams by increasing efficiency, reducing errors, and protecting business-critical data. The data community trusts Redgate to balance speed to market, team collaboration, and data protection.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a small, cross-functional team that typically includes a Tech Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Product Designer, Product Manager, and 4–5 software engineers. Beyond your immediate team, you'll benefit from the support of the Group Engineering Manager—who oversees delivery, people, and processes across the group—an architect who provides technical direction at the product level, and a coaching function to help you get unblocked.

This Senior Software Engineer role is for one of the teams working on Redgate Monitor, our flagship monitoring solution. Redgate Monitor is a widely used tool that helps organisations proactively monitor, diagnose, and optimise their database environments. You’ll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions, improve system performance, and deliver features that directly benefit thousands of customers worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to demonstrate both breadth and depth of technical expertise. You will confidently solve complex problems with clean, simple solutions, lead and contribute to large, challenging projects, and act as a technical influencer within your team. This includes mentoring, coaching, teaching, and sharing your expertise through conversations, documentation, and technical talks.

• Designing, building and testing world-class software, with a focus on scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
• Providing guidance and direction to the team when faced with software design and implementation challenges, owning the toughest and most ambiguous technical problems.
• Writing well-tested code and maintaining high standards for code quality, system design, and testing.
• Taking part in reviews of your own and other developers’ code, offering specific, actionable feedback on code, designs, and behaviours that helps others.
• Collaborating with the team to ensure the product is of high quality.
• Working closely with the user experience specialists to design, implement and improve the products user experience.
• Identifying tools and techniques to improve software engineering, sharing these with the rest of Redgate and beyond.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders, fostering a positive environment.
• Taking ownership of significant projects from start to finish, ensuring delivery of tangible business value through strategic planning and predictable execution.

You practice unit testing, perform code reviews and constantly communicate to ensure the best outcome. Quality is important to you. You’re an excellent communicator with good attention to detail, able to communicate effectively both in person and in writing. You thrive in a highly collaborative team, building strong relationships and fostering a positive environment. You’re flexible and willing to work on all parts of the product, learning new technologies as necessary. You have superb software design skills. You have experience in an agile development environment. You have experience working with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle. You have experience developing applications using React. You have experience working with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, BDD, Infrastructure as Code etc.

Flexible-hybrid working model. Great benefits package.

Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive health coverage, monthly wellbeing allowance, flexible working arrangements, generous paid time off, employee assistance program, community and social events. Redgate has adopted a flexible-hybrid model. This means that people will work flexibly with a blend of remote (home) and co-located (office) work, with teams having the flexibility to decide which location best suits the outcomes they need to deliver.

Our diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging commitments: We believe diverse teams are better at solving problems and fostering a creative culture.

• Recruitment & retention: hiring and retaining diverse talent.
• Authenticity & belonging: promoting inclusive language and behaviours.
• Growth: supporting personal and professional development.

We support DEIB through our inclusion forum (Belong at Redgate) and regular DEIB events. If you need accommodation, please let us know via our application process or email.

While we outline the qualities we typically seek, we recognise that you may possess additional attributes and skills that could make you an excellent fit for our team. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.