--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Foundry at Redgate' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-foundry-redgate-cambridge-n91svewp0s55' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Senior Software Engineer, Foundry at Redgate - **Company:** Redgate - **Location:** Cambridge, MA - **Compensation:** £55k–£80k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/red-gate/b89a7573-fb58-44a7-851d-e7853b86f207/application **Skills:** C#, TypeScript, Python, LangGraph, Microsoft Agentic Framework, MCP, LLM capabilities, Agentic systems, AI coding tools > Join Redgate's Foundry innovation incubator to drive discovery and rapid prototyping. You will work across the full arc of innovation, from horizon-scanning to customer validation, using a varied tech stack including C#, TypeScript, and Python. ## Job description ## AT A GLANCE Location: Cambridge In-office expectation: Once every two weeks Employment type: Permanent Salary: £55,000-£80,000 This role will be a mid or senior level engineer dependant on experience ## WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS 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. ## ABOUT REDGATE 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. ## AI AT REDGATE By 2028, Redgate will operate as an expert plus agent company: domain experts amplified by AI, delivering customer value at a pace our peers can't match. AI handles the heavy lifting, and our people control the judgement. Everyone at Redgate works with Claude, giving you access to the best AI tools from day one. WHY JOIN OUR ENGINEERING TEAM? - 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. ## ABOUT THE ROLE 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. What makes this role different: - 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. ## WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT - 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 WE OFFER - · Salary range: £55,000-£80,000 - · Hybrid working: home and Cambridge office - · Monthly wellbeing allowance and generous paid time off - · Genuine investment in learning, development, and career progression - · Private health insurance ## WHAT HAPPENS NEXT 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. ## BELONGING AT REDGATE We believe that people do their best work in an environment built on respect, fairness, and trust and that diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes. Redgate is an equal opportunity employer, and we make hiring decisions based on skill, potential, and alignment with our values. ## About Redgate ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Redgate provides database management software that helps organizations automate, secure, and scale their database operations across the entire DevOps lifecycle. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped) - **Headquarters**: Cambridge, UK - **Founded**: 1999 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Database management software, Database DevOps, IT infrastructure - Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (92% of the Fortune 100 use Redgate) - Mission or purpose statement: "Puts businesses in control of their databases, supporting automation with confidence, enabling secure scaling and helping people to realize value and unlock growth through AI." ## Products & Services - **Redgate Flyway**: Database migration and version control tool (SaaS/self-hosted) for automating schema changes across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and more. - **Redgate Monitor**: Real-time multi-platform performance monitoring with alerts and diagnostics (SaaS/self-hosted). - **Redgate Test Data Manager**: Reliable and secure test data provisioning and data masking (SaaS/self-hosted). - **SQL Toolbelt**: A bundle of tools for SQL Server development, deployment, and management. - **Additional Solutions**: Database change management, AI data readiness, security and compliance, cloud migration and workload optimization, efficiency and cost optimization, productivity and workflow automation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: 200,000+ users worldwide, 92% of the Fortune 100 use Redgate tools; 806 product releases in the last year; 12 million people per year use Redgate educational resources. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available (the company appears to be independently owned and bootstrapped). - **Growth Signals**: 500+ employees (“Redgaters”), continued hiring across engineering, sales, marketing, and support; strong brand recognition in the database community; recent focus on AI data readiness and cloud migration. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep specialization**: 25+ years of focus on database management with a comprehensive toolchain covering the entire lifecycle. - **Trust and adoption**: 92% of Fortune 100 companies use Redgate, indicating high enterprise trust and stickiness. - **Market leadership**: Industry leader in Database DevOps with a large user community and extensive educational resources. - **Certifications**: ISO 27001:2022 certified, providing security and compliance assurance. ## Strategic Focus - **AI data readiness**: Preparing reliable data foundations for AI initiatives. - **Cloud migration and modernization**: Helping customers move to cloud databases and optimize workloads. - **Automation and productivity**: Expanding Database DevOps automation to reduce errors and speed up releases. - **Continued product innovation**: Frequent releases (806 releases in the last year) show active R&D. ## Why Work Here - **Culture values**: “We’re reasonable,” “Ingeniously simple,” “Transparency helps us continually improve,” “We do our best work in teams.” Emphasis on trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - **Hybrid working**: Flexible hybrid model blending office (Cambridge, UK) and remote work; most teams spend at least one day a week in the office. - **Benefits**: - 25 days annual leave + extra day off for birthday (or other special day) + flexible public holidays - 6-week paid sabbatical every 5 years - Contributory pension up to 8% - Life and income protection, health and travel insurance (covers partners/families) - Wellbeing allowance + Unmind mental health app - Enhanced parental leave (maternity: 16 weeks full pay; paternity: 2 weeks full pay) - Training budget and clear career pathways - “Level Up” internal conference for skill development - **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on products used by the world’s largest companies; supportive, inclusive environment with focus on growth and impact. - **Dress for your day** and free drinks/snacks in the office. ## Sources 1. [Redgate - About Us](https://www.red-gate.com/our-company/) 2. [Redgate - Careers Overview](https://www.red-gate.com/our-company/careers/overview/) 3. [Redgate - Benefits](https://www.red-gate.com/our-company/careers/benefits/) 4. [Redgate - Current Opportunities](https://www.red-gate.com/our-company/careers/current-opportunities/) 5. [Redgate - Homepage & Products](https://www.red-gate.com/) 6. 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