Senior Software Engineer, Redgate Software
£68-80k
1 day every two weeks
Database DevOps and management solutions for developers
Be an early applicant
Database DevOps and management solutions for developers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£68-80k
1 day every two weeks
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To solve the complex challenges of database management and ensure security across the DevOps lifecycle.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an expert in modern .NET/ C#
- You can design and build scalable, resilient, and secure systems, considering trade-offs and future implications
- You have a bias for simplicity and maintainability in the code you write and the products you build
- You practice unit testing, perform code reviews and constantly communicate to ensure the best outcome. Quality is important to you
- You’re an excellent communicator with good attention to detail, able to communicate effectively both in person and in writing
- You thrive in a highly collaborative team, building strong relationships and fostering a positive environment
- You’re flexible and willing to work on all parts of the product, learning new technologies as necessary
- You have superb software design skills
- You have experience in an agile development environment
- You’re enthusiastic about engaging with customers as necessary to create a great product
- You are driven by continuous improvement and foster a growth mindset within the team
Desirable
- You have experience working with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
- You have experience developing applications using React
- You have experience working with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, BDD, Infrastructure as Code etc
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a small, cross-functional team that typically includes a Tech Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Product Designer, Product Manager, and 4–5 software engineers
- Beyond your immediate team, you'll benefit from the support of the Group Engineering Manager—who oversees delivery, people, and processes across the group—an architect who provides technical direction at the product level, and a coaching function to help you get unblocked
- This Senior Software Engineer role is for one of the teams working on Redgate Monitor, our flagship monitoring solution
- Redgate Monitor is a widely used tool that helps organisations proactively monitor, diagnose, and optimise their database environments
- As part of the Monitor team, you’ll contribute to the ongoing evolution of a mature, high-impact product
- You’ll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions, improve system performance, and deliver features that directly benefit thousands of customers worldwide
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to demonstrate both breadth and depth of technical expertise
- You will confidently solve complex problems with clean, simple solutions, lead and contribute to large, challenging projects, and act as a technical influencer within your team
- In addition to championing best practices, you will proactively drive improvements in processes, tooling, and architecture that benefit the wider engineering organisation
- Beyond technical skills, a key part of the senior role is elevating others
- This includes mentoring, coaching, teaching, and sharing your expertise through conversations, documentation, and technical talks
- You act as a force multiplier, raising the technical abilities of your teammates and improving the engineering environment for all. With a growth mindset, you will actively foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and psychological safety
- Designing, building and testing world-class software, with a focus on scalable, resilient, and secure systems
- Providing guidance and direction to the team when faced with software design and implementation challenges, owning the toughest and most ambiguous technical problems
- Writing well-tested code and maintaining high standards for code quality, system design, and testing
- Taking part in reviews of your own and other developers’ code, offering specific, actionable feedback on code, designs, and behaviours that helps others
- Collaborating with the team to ensure the product is of high quality
- Working closely with the user experience specialists to design, implement and improve the products user experience
- Working closely with the team to ensure the product is supported by solid technical documentation, and API specifications
- Identifying tools and techniques to improve software engineering, sharing these with the rest of Redgate and beyond
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders, fostering a positive environment
- Understanding how the product or systems owned by your team solve customer problems and add value, prioritising engineering work based on its potential to provide value to customers
- Taking ownership of significant projects from start to finish, ensuring delivery of tangible business value through strategic planning and predictable execution
- You actively engage with users to understand how the product is used in the real world and bring customer empathy into your engineering decisions
Our take
As businesses become increasingly dependent on data, managing databases has become more complex. Companies need to move quickly while keeping systems secure and reliable. However, many still depend on manual processes and disconnected teams, making it harder to manage modern data infrastructure, especially as AI and cloud technologies continue to grow.
Redgate is helping companies tackle these challenges through database DevOps and lifecycle management tools. Its platform helps teams automate database changes, improve collaboration, and manage systems more efficiently and securely. Redgate, then, supports organisations throughout the full database development and deployment process.
More than 200,000 data professionals worldwide use Redgate's solutions too, signifying just how strong a position it has in the market. And with recent backing from Bregal Sagemount, the company plans to accelerate product innovation and expand even further so it can keep up with the ever-growing demand for secure, scalable data management.
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Company values
- We're reasonable: We treat everyone as we would want to be treated ourselves, even when the circumstances are difficult.
- We're ingeniously simple: Our best products and services are ingeniously simple. The same goes for how we work internally. We work best when we don't overcomplicate things.
- Transparency helps us continually improve: We make mistakes visible and share the evidence used to make decisions. No gossiping, no intrigue, no pussy-footing around problems.
- We do our best work in teams: We continually improve when we make the most of everyone's expertise. The company is more important than the team and the team is more important than the individual.
- When our customers succeed, so do we: At Redgate, your growth matters. You’ll have the freedom to develop the skills you want, in the way that works best for you—supported by guidance, resources, and encouragement every step of the way. Above are just a few of the ways we help people learn, grow, and thrive here.
- Don't be an asshole: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly-defined tasks, there is no room for you here if you're an asshole.
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Jakub Lamik
(CEO)Jakub joined Redgate in 2019 as CPO, moving into the role of CEO in 2021. Previously, they spent nearly 9 years at Arm in various roles, including VP of Product.
Kate Duggan
(CMO)Kate joined Redgate in 2015 as a Product Marketing Manager, since then, they have held a number of roles and became the CMO in 2021. Previously, they spent over 3 years at enLight as a Business Development Director.
Cassi Roper
(CRO)Cassie joined Redgate in 2006 working in Renewal Sales, since then, they have held a number of roles and became the CRO in 2023.
Steven Mitchell
(CFO)Prior to joining Redgate in 2022, Steven was the CFO at Six Degrees Group and Dreamland Margate. They also spent 4 years at eir Ireland as a Corporate Finance Director, Interim Group CFO and Chief Strategy Officer.
David Gummer
(CPO)Prior to joining Redgate in 2022, David was the Global Head of Service Strategy & Portfolio Management at Finastra, a Director of Product Management at NGA Human Resources and a Director of Product Management & Alliances at Lumesse. They also spent 8 years at BT as the Head of Corporate Development, GM - Online (BT Directories) and Telemetry/M2M (BT Redcare).
Graham McMillan
(CTO)Prior to joining Redgate in 2024, Graham spent 9 years at Elsevier as an Integration & Data Architect, Director of Software Engineering, and VP of Engineering. Prior to that, they spent 7 years at Oracle as an Enterprise Architect Senior Director.
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