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Working with our intelligence partners, MI5 and MI6, we protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks, and espionage. At GCHQ, you’ll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that emphasises teamwork.\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in solving mission-critical challenges. You’ll contribute to the architecture and design of both new and existing systems, establish and promote best practices, and deliver high-quality software solutions. Drawing on your expertise in various software engineering methodologies, you’ll introduce fresh ideas and innovative approaches that make a real impact at the core of our mission: keeping the UK safe, both in the real world and online.\n\nYou’ll review pull requests, define code review, branching, and deployment strategies, and work across a variety of software engineering frameworks. Operating at a deep technical level, you’ll apply your expertise in languages such as JavaScript, Java, C++, Node.js, Python, Rust, Go, and .NET.\n\nYou’ll bring a genuine enthusiasm for discovering and applying new software engineering techniques. As part of a wider network of peers, you’ll collaborate and learn from others. You’ll engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, making a real positive contribution to the wider engineering community.\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring expertise in modern programming languages and frameworks such as C++, Golang, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Node.js, Python, Rust, along with experience working with cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP. You’ll have successfully led Agile project teams, evaluated customer business requirements, and delivered high-quality software solutions that make a real impact.\n\nWe welcome experienced professionals from a variety of related fields, including software engineering and security, site reliability engineering, and data engineering. Your genuine enthusiasm for software engineering, combined with your ability to mentor others, collaborate effectively, and stay ahead of emerging technologies, makes you a valuable contributor to a forward-thinking engineering community.\n\nTraining and development\nThis lays the foundation for a learning journey tailored to your goals and preferred style of development.\n\nFrom day one, you’ll have access to mentors and subject matter experts to help you settle into the role, and you can continue to have a mentor for as little or as long as you choose throughout your career. From books, online courses, and conferences to real-world projects supported by your team, we’ll provide the resources you need to grow. You’ll have access to learning and development opportunities tailored to your role, covering a wide range of software disciplines including front-end design, site reliability engineering, data engineering, solution architecture, machine learning operations, UX, Agile, cloud engineering, and security. We’ll even support formal qualifications with dedicated funding, and provide subscriptions to platforms like Cloud Academy, Pluralsight, and O’Reilly to help stay ahead.\n\nWhether you’re exploring advanced software engineering patterns, gaining certifications like AWS Developer or Certified Scrum Master, or developing leadership skills through internal training, we’ll help you build the career you want. 1,750 on arrival and £1,750 after completing probation, plus other benefits including:\n• 25 days of annual leave, automatically increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus10.5 days of public and privilege holidays\n• opportunities for recognition through our employee performance scheme\n• interest-free season ticket loan (for parking and travel)\n• excellent pension scheme\n• cycle to work scheme\n• on-site facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and coffee bars (available at some locations)\n• paid parental and adoption leave.\n\nAt GCHQ diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: people of different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including individuals from groups that are under-represented in our workforce, such as women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, individuals with disabilities, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.\n\nevidence of where you’ve taken ownership of a technical project or piece of work\ndemonstrate the ability to understand several modern languages/frameworks, such as C++, Golang, Java, JavaScript, .Net, Node.js, Python, Rust\nexperience working in an Agile technical project team\ndemonstrate competency as a Software Engineer\n\nThis role requires the highest level of security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes.\n\nPlease note we have a strict drugs policy. This is good practice and will help you manage your application with us more securely.\n\nPlease consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting your application.\n\nIf you are currently overseas, please wait until you are in the UK to apply.",
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