Software Engineer – C++/Rust

Overview

As a Software Engineer at Oakdoor, you contribute to world-leading network security devices designed for critical networks. You work within a small, expert team to deliver secure, high-quality software across Linux, embedded, and cloud contexts. You’ll tackle real-world security challenges and collaborate using modern development practices to accelerate impactful solutions. This role offers hands-on growth in a fast-paced scale-up with opportunities across engineering, customer-facing, and internal roles.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• pension and bonus scheme
• hybrid working
• flexible healthcare plans
• career progression and training
• team events

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software for Linux-based and bare-metal environments in real-time scenarios
• Collaborate within an agile team, including pair programming and test-driven development
• Contribute to software quality through testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement
• Engage with cross-functional stakeholders (sales, support) to understand and solve client problems
• Support cloud-based components and network security features
• Participate in design and bring-up activities for hardware-software integration

Key requirements

• 2 to 5 years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Modern C++ and the STL or Rust
• Experience with Python
• Bare metal and/or Linux and real-time OS experience
• Cloud development experience
• Knowledge or experience of network security
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance

• Excellent communication skills
• Collaborative team player
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Modern C++ and STL or Rust
• Python
• Bare metal, Linux and RTOS

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