Sr Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks in Ann Arbor, MI

Come Join Our Passionate Team! At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 220,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.

The Backup team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Ann Arbor-based team in Barracuda’s Data, Network, and Application security division. You’ll be part of the team building the next generation of our Backup product, which serves to protect our customers’ on premises and virtual file systems, emails, files, and historical revisions against accidental or malicious data loss for purposes of backup, compliance, and disaster recovery. You will work to design, develop, test, debug, deploy, maintain and improve the core backend services while working closely with the frontend and QA teams.

What you’ll be working on

Design, implement and test features, improvements and optimizations for the product

Find and fix bugs in production and development environments

Uphold high standards for code quality and architecture, including the use of SOLID design principles

Mentor team members in design and development best practices

Thoughtfully give, and gracefully receive, rigorous code reviews

Develop and interpret metrics to monitor production system performance

On-call rotation for the services your team is responsible for

Document and communicate research and results

What you bring to the role

Bachelor’s degree in a technology field, or equivalent work experience

5+ years of software development experience in programming (C#, Java, PHP)

Full-stack experience - skilled in front and back end delivery and concepts

Experience adapting to a large legacy codebase and improving it incrementally

Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including root cause analysis

Curiosity and drive to learn and investigate unfamiliar systems

Proficiency in developing software in a Linux/Unix environment

Proficiency in using Git

Experience writing automated tests (unit, component, integration, and end-to-end)

Experience building and deploying applications in the public cloud

Experience building and using Docker containers

Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences

Enthusiasm and willingness to communicate via video-conferencing and text-based chat (especially during COVID-19)

The following are considered a plus:

gRPC experience

Azure cloud services experience (Blob, Cosmos DB, AKS, Azure DevOps)

Experience logging, monitoring, and tracing microservices in production

Jenkins experience

What you’ll get from us

A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are many opportunities for cross training and the ability to define your next career step within Barracuda. We support employees who want to explore other areas of interest.