Senior Software Engineer - Platform
Rapid7 is a publicly traded Cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, MA with 17 offices around the world. We are excited to be expanding our Global footprint into India and as we build out our Product & Engineering teams, we are looking for Software Engineers. As a Senior Platform Operations Engineer you will work with your team to effectively ensure system reliability through automation and analysis to prevent issues before they occur. You are an innovative, self-motivated contributor who takes on research and proposes major new technologies within a product line. You will take initiative to identify and own solutions to problems, and you will partner with cross-functional teams owning requirements that take into account all parties’ needs. You will act as a resource by advising and mentoring junior engineers to continue to build the technical capabilities of our teams. This is an exciting opportunity to be one of the first hires for Rapid7 in India supporting our growth strategy in a company culture that supports trying new approaches and continuous learning.
About the Team
Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world.
The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it’s our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies.
Join our engineering team to help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.
About the Role
The Senior Platform Operations Engineer is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of ensuring reliability, scalability and availability across our products so that our customers are safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed ensuring our products are delivering a secure, available, reliable and scalable experience. You will be working on a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer success.You will have the opportunity to further enhance your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst mentoring others.
In this role, you will:
Collaborate with your team and other key stakeholders to identify potential risks to availability/reliability
Suggest patterns and standards around testing and operations to improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
Be involved in the creation, design and planning of upcoming testing strategies, operational improvements and decisions around tooling and frameworks relating to SRE/Operations
Regularly monitor our applications/infrastructure and identify opportunities for improving efficiencies or MTTR
Understand our products and make decisions to support our customers
The skills you’ll bring include:
A minimum of 6 years experience in software development using Java, terraform and Jenkins. Experience with Python, Go, ansible, spinnaker, or other equivalent programming languages would be advantageous
Experience with vulnerability or code quality frameworks such as Trivvy, Snyk or SonarQube
A minimum of 1 year of working with observability tooling such as grafana
Experience using Cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
Experience with testing frameworks as Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright would be advantageous
Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
Customer focussed mindset, understanding customer needs, providing excellent service and focussed on delivering value
The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
Strong creative problem solving skills
Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally and strong attention to detail
Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns
We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.
At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,500+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope just like we’ ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you ’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.