Senior Software Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Job Description

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building large, scalable SaaS products, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner, and a fantastic manager of people.

Responsibilities 

• Lead the development initiative for building best-in-class Qualys’ next-generation products
• Passionate about building world class teams that excel at developing innovative Security SaaS products
• Customer focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers.
• Create high-performance APIs, libraries and microservices that scale to meet/exceed the demands of processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day
• Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running the SaaS services in partnership with the SRE and operations teams.
• Ensure that you maximize the productivity of your team, especially by predicting and resolving obstacles and dependencies before they’re needed
• Ensure collaboration, communication, and proper expectation setting across teams
• Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the products developed by the team
• Research, evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies
• Produce high-quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find easy to work with in the future
• Participate in architecture reviews related to performance and scalability of products

Requirements 

• 10 years development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products
• 5 years experience with managing teams of engineers.
• Ability to lead and influence team members to forge consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.
• Strong Java programming skills including object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc.
• Knowledge of JVM concepts like garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading, etc.
• Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using:
• RESTful API's consumed by internal and external partners
• Messaging middleware using JMS AMQP, Kafka, NATS, etc.
• In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc.
• Persistence in RDBMS or NoSQL Systems
• Applied principles of site reliability engineering for monitoring and alerting of applications
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math or related field
• Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra) Bonus Points If You Have 
• Built Security services from the ground up
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with Hashicorp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds