Principal Software Engineer - Platform
Principal Software Engineer - Platform
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Job Description
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 Principal Platform Operations Engineer youll create set and influence the technical direction of how we effectively ensure system reliability through automation and analysis to prevent issues before they occur. You are an innovative selfmotivated contributor who takes on research and proposes major new technologies within a product line. By fostering relationships with crossfunctional partners you will contribute to the development of technical strategy. Youll help grow other software engineers through technical mentorship and guidance. 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 awardwinning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10000 organizations. These teams use bestinclass technology leadingedge 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 its 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 industryleading 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 Principal 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 crossfunctional team creating endtoend 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 multiple operations/SRE and development teams and other key stakeholders to identify potential risks to availability/reliability .
Establish patterns and standards around testing and operations to improve reliability quality and timetomarket of our suite of software solutions
Design and establish methods for how teams should execute comprehensive test plans to identify software defects across functional performance usability and regression testing areas
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
Deeply understand our products and make high impact decisions to support our customers
The skills youll bring include:
A minimum of 10 years experience in software development using java python go terraform ansible spinnaker jenkins or other equivalent programming languages/frameworks
Experience with vulnerability or code quality frameworks such as snyk or sonarqube
A minimum of 2 years with testing frameworks as Selenium Cypress Cucumber Playwright
A minimum of 2 years of working with observability tooling such as datadog or grafana
Excited by technology curious and eager to learn with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
The attitude and ability to thrive in a highgrowth 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 multidimensional teams. Thats 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 dont be shy apply today.
About Rapid7
At Rapid7 we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers our industry and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity passion and collaboration to challenge whats possible and drive extraordinary impact.
Here were building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 10000 global customers ahead of whatevers next.
Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the worlds biggest security challenges.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
