Sr. Full Stack Engineer (BCAS)

Job ID 22-470

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.

We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

Envision yourself at Barracuda!

We are seeking experienced Senior Software Engineers to join our Email Security product team. Our products protect our customers against a growing number of security threats. As a Principal Software Engineer you will help us architect, develop, test, and scale new and innovative features for these products in a continuous delivery model.

You’ll work on the large-scale distributed systems underpinning our cloud applications for email security. Truly dealing with ‘big data’ - we face interesting challenges related to scale and performance. Our teams are made up of engineers with varied skills and backgrounds, which allow for autonomy and innovation in developing solutions. We value code quality, innovative thinking, good communication, occasional pair programming, sound testing practices, and opportunities for mentoring.

Our products are generally built using modern technologies and languages and deploy to AWS or Azure via a mature CI/CD pipeline. Performance, monitoring and observability are first class citizens in our ecosystem. Some products are on their journey ‘to the public cloud’ and successful management of a product roadmap, and an architectural roadmap that includes addressing technical debt, is key.

Tech Stack

Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Python, PHP, Perl, Kafka, Postgres, Docker, AWS with near term future state is introducing modernization of the stack, including:

• Leveraging public cloud, ex. Azure/AWS managed services
• Modernizing the CI/CD pipeline with more automation and things like Kubernetes
• Providing a unified customer experience across all of our product UIs by leveraging a React/Typescript framework and a design system with re-usable React components.

What you’ll be working on

• Designing and driving implementation of highly scalable, highly available, highly secure services deploying to AWS powering product functionality. (backend or full-stack roles)
• Creating backend APIs supporting new product features.
• Working with Designers to implement features in the UI (frontend roles).

What you bring to the role (whichever apply for > frontend, backend or full-stack roles):

• ~5 years of professional experience developing software, frontend or backend or both, on distributed systems/SaaS products at cloud scale
• Experience with ‘search’ - Lucene or Elasticsearch a plus
• Ability to communicate and collaborate - in your code, in the documentation, and in chats and conversations with others
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Knowledge of SDLC and Agile practices, including coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD and operations.
• Ability to communicate clearly and use a collaborative approach across boundaries to get work done.
• Solid experience with one or more of the following programming languages - Python, Perl, PHP, React/Typescript or equivalent
• Experience with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML/CSS and modern development frameworks (such as React/Typescript leveraging say node.js) is desired
• Strong practical Linux and bash scripting skills. Experience with Windows is nice to have.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, routing, DNS, load balancing etc.
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• Experience with microservices architecture, streaming services (e.g. kafka), REST services, queuing systems, container-based virtualization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience working with distributed datastores such as Cassandra and Elasticsearch

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 opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda.

• High-quality health benefits
• Retirement Plan with employer match
• Career-growth opportunities
• Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits
• Volunteer opportunities