Staff Software Engineer

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WatchGuard has deployed nearly a million integrated, multi-function threat management appliances worldwide.

WatchGuard

Employee count: 1001-5000

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As a Staff Software Engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be building out and enhancing our MDR solution while delivering new features and improvements that provide value to our customers. You will work on everything from analytics dashboards to serverless backend services to big data ingestion and processing pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

•Gather requirements, design, develop, test, and ship services and features while collaborating in a dynamic and results-driven environment.

•Work at all levels of the stack, from building cohesive customer experiences to scaling ML pipelines

•Take an active role in mentoring junior engineers

•Make a direct impact on the success of WatchGuard as a company

•Participate in on-call rotation approximately once every 2 months

Ideal Candidate Profile

5+ years of experience with Python in a production environment
2-4 years of experience with AWS, in particular Lambda functions and serverless development
3+ years of experience working with CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Serverless, or Ansible
Experience with SQL and a relational database such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
A proven track record of success building cloud-based, highly automated, micro-services
A desire to contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
An innovative and passionate spirit, an ability to overcome technical issues in a cooperative environment, a commitment to ship quickly, and familiarity with agile software development practices
The ability to deal with ambiguity, communicate well with partner teams, and a compassionate understanding of the customer experience
Proficiency in writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for both front-end and back-end applications.
A passion for building scalable and maintainable code that supports growth and futureproofing of systems.

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About the job

Apply before

Mar 24, 2026

Posted on

Jan 23, 2026

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Location requirements

Brazil

Hiring timezones

Brazil +/- 0 hours

About WatchGuard

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WatchGuard has deployed nearly a million integrated, multi-function threat management appliances worldwide. Our signature red boxes are architected to be the industry's smartest, fastest, and meanest security devices with every scanning engine running at full throttle.

Our Flexible Work Philosophy

WatchGuard embraces a flexible work philosophy. The majority of our employees have the choice to work from the office or at home, or any combination of the two. We’ve built a gobal workforce of amazing, diverse team members and a flexible culture built on trust, collaboration, and belonging.

25 Years of Cybersecurity

From our early days in Seattle’s Pioneer Square to a team of more than 1,200 today, our outstanding employees and culture have fueled our success. WatchGuardians past and present have contributed their curiosity, humor, dedication, teamwork, and customer focus to building a cybersecurity platform that simplifies every aspect of security delivery. It’s been a fantastic journey! We’ve gathered photos from decades past and interviewed a wonderful group of our colleagues to create this look back on 25 years of our history.

Tech stack

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.NET

Bootstrap

JavaScript

Python

HTML5

CSS 3

PHP

ASP.NET

C++

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Employee benefits

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Generous PTO & Holidays

WatchGuard believes in work-life balance with a generous PTO policy and observance of holidays.

Family Care Benefits

WatchGuard offers free backup care, adoption assistance, fertility coverage, and subsidized childcare.

Comprehensive Health Plans

WatchGuard offers medical, dental, and vision plans to keep employees and their families healthy all year round.

Paid Parental Leave

WatchGuard provides paid parental leave, ensuring new parents can take the time they need with their growing families.

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