Senior Software Engineer (C++)

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• What to expect as a "Senior Software Engineer" in WatchGuard:
• The Senior Software Engineer role in WatchGuard engineering team is perfectly suited for strong technical folks who are creative, motivated, curious, and good listener, and as you ramp up in your responsibilities you would be critical in helping us achieve the following main objectives:
• Develop yourself by learning more robust processes using agile methodologies and working with globally distributed teams with asynchronous communication across diverse cultures and time zones. Your team depends upon your input and guidance.
• Ensure that you understand the vision, are held accountable, meet commitments, consider choices for high-performance and resilient software, and have strong software engineering discipline (test-driven design, unit test code coverage, automation, staying on top of OSS compliance and vulnerabilities, monitoring focused, secure coding practices, etc.).
• Mentor other engineers and continue to develop command over all aspects of delivering high-quality software (design, documentation, unit tests, code reviews, security, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, etc.) built on top of microservices architecture and cross-platform C++ applications.
• Uphold our standards and maturity levels of running world class security services in cloud by designing more secure, reliable, and scalable cloud managed security services (architecture and infrastructure wise).
• Maintain an open environment of collaboration, transparency, innovation, and fun for positive teamwork.
• A Typical "Day in the Life of a Senior Software Engineer" in WatchGuard:
• Taking ownership and decisions: You are expected to demonstrate effective technical leadership, take decisions, drive the development activities and the team in the right direction. It is possible that in your role you may be involved with more than one project at the same time, and being the owner means that you must assume responsibility for what you and your teams are doing. You will also be engaging with product management and customer support to understand customer feedback and needs.
• Guiding execution: The projects you are working on are complex and sometimes multi-faceted. They will require strong technical skills but also soft skills. You should be able to influence and drive the team and your work to deliver excellence in a predictable time.
• Showing initiative and commitment: You are now part of an experienced and strong group of engineers, but there is still a lot to learn and while you are learning it is important that you do not wait for anything to get your hands, you need to have initiative to pursue the activities and commitment in finish them before the next challenge.
• Applying analytical and logical mind: You will write solutions to solve real problems for our customers. So, you need to understand our customers and what is important for them. You should not just follow instructions, you must comprehend what you are doing, ask questions, bring suggestions, and find the best solution to deliver what is required.
• Demonstrating curiosity and genuine interest in learning: You will be in contact with more senior engineers and architects as well as working in a complex environment and product. So, you will have the opportunity to gain experience all the time and it is imperative that you have an interest in evolving with the daily experience and becoming a

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