Senior Software Engineer Mainframe 688

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not Specified

At Protegrity, we lead innovation by using AI and quantum-resistant cryptography to transform data protection across cloud-native, hybrid, on-premises, and open source environments. We leverage advanced cryptographic methods such as tokenization, format-preserving encryption, and quantum-resilient techniques to protect sensitive data. As a global leader in data security, our mission is to ensure that data isn’t just valuable but also usable, trusted, and safe.

Protegrity offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation and collaboration, with the ability to make a meaningful impact on the industry while working alongside some of the brightest minds. Together, we are redefining how the world safeguards data, enabling organizations to thrive in a GenAI era where data is the ultimate currency. If you're ready to shape the future of data security, Protegrity is the place for you.

This job is for you if: As a z/OS Engineer, you will be responsible for developing & integrating scalable solutions and should be highly versatile with z/OS, its concepts and building software on it. You will be accountable for designing, coding, testing, modifying, and implementing new or existing software products.

To be successful in this role, you must be a self-starter, an eager learner, and a tenacious professional in all respects. You should have advanced knowledge of programming languages, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work to a deadline.

If you like the challenge of being the person where the buck stops, of creating and managing the software from top to bottom, and being responsible for the successes and failures that that sort of responsibility entails, then this is the ideal position for you.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to continuous development, enhancement and maintenance of existing and new products.
• Contributes to appropriate software development methods, standards, tools to achieve well engineered outcomes.
• Ability to mentor/advice on effective development practices for the team, including the use of design patterns, frameworks, programming/debugging environments, IDEs.
• Assisting in planning and estimation of product backlog & features of the team/s to the product owners.
• Contribution to advanced participation in the process for Agile development of products with an ownership of technical requirements and design.
• Ability to lead the technical interaction of the team with internal and external stakeholders, especially for the technical requirements and associated product design.
• Adaptability to learn and enhance skills in the domain of data security alongside the product’s technical environment.
• Ability to mentor & review work of other engineers and Capable to work as an individual contributor too.
• Necessary soft skills to be demonstrated for review/mentorship of engineers inside the team and across the teams.
• Excellent collaboration abilities within and across teams for technical requirements and design finalizations.
• Cross team technical dependencies to be owned.
• Ability to be a good team player and soft skilled person.

Qualifications

• 4+ years post bachelor’s degree experience as software engineer in developing & integrating applications in zOS and associated programming.
• Mastery on computer science concepts and systems programming.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in systems programming using C, C++, z/OS High Level Assembler (HLASM) including interfacing between HLASM and C routines.
• Good knowledge of z/OS operating system architecture and network configurations.
• Should be well versed with compiler and software build tools associated with zOS.
• Experience in programming with network protocols viz. TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL and network Sockets.
• Good experience in working with client-server and multi-tier systems.
• Hands-on experience in SQL, configuring and tuning databases viz. DB2.
• Hands-on experience in writing and debugging z/OS system-level code.