Senior Software Engineer, Redgate Software
Foundry
£55-75k
Database DevOps and management solutions for developers
Posted today
Database DevOps and management solutions for developers
501-1000 employees
Posted today
£55-75k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To solve the complex challenges of database management and ensure security across the DevOps lifecycle.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience using AI coding tools. You've used them extensively, understand their limitations, and have developed ways to work around them productively and safely
- Strong software design and coding skills across modern languages, particularly C#, TypeScript, or Python, enough to guide and review AI-generated code with confidence
- Hands-on experience building agentic systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, Microsoft Agentic Framework, or MCP, with a solid understanding of LLM capabilities and risks
- Experience designing and running experiments to validate ideas quickly, using technical prototypes, customer feedback, and lean startup principles to test assumptions and make clear decisions
- Comfortable engaging directly with customers and stakeholders: running interviews, demos, and concierge-style validation processes, and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A product mindset; you think in terms of user value, outcomes, and market fit, not just features or technical delivery
What the job involves
- Redgate's Foundry is our innovation incubator, the team scanning the horizon for Redgate's next big opportunity. This role exists because that kind of work needs engineers who are genuinely excited by discovery: people who can form a hypothesis, test it fast, and make a clear-eyed call on whether to push forward or change course
- Most ideas won't become products. That's by design. Each experiment sharpens our thinking and improves the odds of finding the one that will. If you're motivated by that kind of challenge, where the destination isn't fixed and the work is never the same twice, this is the role for you
- Redgate brings together people who want to do their best work in an environment built on trust, accountability, and collaboration
- We build solutions that help data professionals securely manage the data and databases that their organisations depend on, a space that's only becoming more critical as systems scale, data regulations increase, and AI adoption accelerates
- You'll work in a team that cares about collaboration, craft and quality, not just in how we build, but in choosing what to build, finding the shortest path to the questions that matter most
- There’s real scope to grow your skills and impact, with clear pathways and support
- We value sustainable delivery, good ways of working and time to improve how we build
- The Foundry operates differently to the rest of Redgate's product teams. You won't be handed a roadmap. Instead, you'll work across the full arc of innovation — from horizon-scanning and ideation through to early-stage research, rapid prototyping, and working directly with customers to validate what you're building
- You'll be part of a small cross-functional team (a Tech Lead plus four to six Software and Machine Learning Engineers), and you'll regularly run projects in parallel: contributing to ongoing experiments while also exploring entirely new directions
- The tech stack is deliberately varied, the right tool for the job, not a fixed list, spanning C#, TypeScript, Python, and more across desktop, web, API, database, and ML development
- You'll work on problems where there is no established answer and you'll have the autonomy to explore them seriously
- Your work sits at the intersection of software engineering, customer insight, and product thinking; it's rare to find all three in one role
- You'll use and help shape how Redgate adopts agentic coding and AI development tools, not as an afterthought, but as a core part of how the team works
- The scope is genuinely broad: a typical day could see you balancing technical prototypes, customer interviews, and competitor teardowns
Application process
- Your application will be reviewed by a person, we don't use AI or automated tools to assess applications. Every profile is read by one of our Talent Partners
- You'll hear back within a few days, whether it's a next step or a no, we aim to respond promptly so you're not left wondering
- Our interview process is straightforward and consistent, you'll find more detail on our typical hiring process below, so you know what's coming and why
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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