Software Engineer

Are you ready to unlock the potential of cutting-edge technology and shape the future of cyber security?

Oakdoor™ by PA Consulting is an incubated scale-up business that is disrupting the cyber security world of cross domain solutions. Bringing the next generation of ingenious hardware data diodes to the most important networks in the world.

We build relationships with customers who want to protect their critical digital assets, from across a range of industries such as defence, energy and public sector. By understanding common challenges and opportunities we use our insight to solve customer problems, nurturing relationships with organisations of varying maturity.

From improving our existing products (including data diodes and gateways) to working on related large cross-domain solutions, we have a vision for our next generation of products and are looking for experienced software engineers to help us get there!

As a Software Engineer within Oakdoor, you would be working on projects with real-world impact operating in environments with complex security requirements. Our focus as a team is always on writing the highest quality software. Communication and knowledge sharing across the team is important for us and we’re always discussing how we can improve our software development and agile practices.

Our future areas of growth require knowledge around:

• Linux application development
• Low-level embedded
• Linux platform bring-up
• Real-time network protocols
• Network security
• Cloud applications

Requirements

You must be eligible for UK Security Clearance

Key experience should include some of the following:

• Strong experience with 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

Skills/Personal Qualities:

• A desire to push for continuous improvement and deliver quality software
• An enthusiasm for working collaboratively as part of a team including pair programming using test-driven development
• Excellent communication skills

What we love about working on Oakdoor:

“The emphasis on modern development techniques, like TDD and pair/group-programming is one of the best things about being in the team; especially when working remotely. From the first day, you can be in a group and contribute to coding and discussions right away; as well as getting to know the rest of the team and learning the domain as you go."

“I’ve really enjoyed the variety of applications we’ve built for clients to support Oakdoor products. The wide variety of programming languages and tech stacks we’ve used have meant that I’ve always been learning something new.”

“Oakdoor is a well-managed team of people who are great to work with. The project excels in agile practices and principles and is a great place to learn.”

"The team is super rigorous when it comes to writing clean, testable software. I feel like I’m developing habits that will serve me well for my whole career."