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Go Software Engineer (UK)
SOPHOS LIMITED
Home Office register entry: SOPHOS LIMITED, Abingdon
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Closest occupation match: SOC 2134, Programmers and software development professionals. Home Office going rate for this occupation: £54,700 a year.
Public reference figures for the Skilled Worker route: the standard salary threshold is £41,700 a year and the new-entrant threshold is £33,400 a year. Individual eligibility depends on personal circumstances. These figures are public reference information, not advice or a verdict on this job.
Role description
About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Managed Services and Emerging Technology Group. The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on experience in Go, ideally alongside experience in TypeScript, to design, build, ship, and support reliable software within a collaborative engineering team. This role is suited to an engineer who can lead complex feature and service delivery end to end, contribute to technical direction and engineering standards, mentor less experienced engineers, and make effective use of modern developer tooling, including AI-assisted tools, while continuing to strengthen our frontend and backend platforms.
Last verified against our ingestion on 27 August 2026; sponsor register dataset 2026-08-25.