The Platform Analytics team is looking for a data-focused DevOps Engineer I to help build and scale the systems that power Rapid7’s internal analytics. This role focuses on transporting and enabling access to high-volume telemetry data, supporting teams across the company in making informed, data-driven decisions. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and actionable.

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 11,000 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 including Java, Python, AWS and Go, just to name a few. 

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

As a DevOps Engineer I,  your primary responsibility will be to support our internal moose by seamlessly serving product usage data and maintaining self-hosted data solutions. While we expect you can come in and hit the ground running, you will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced senior engineers. 

. Specifically, your focus will be to: 

• Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing code and solving problems 

• Participate in the design and planning of upcoming features, our Engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process 

• When required, partner with internal teams such as UX and Product Management who work deeply with our product to ensure we are understanding our customers needs 

• Work towards developing a deep understanding of our products in order to best support our customers 

• Work with Practice specific technologies

The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:

• 1-3 years experience in software development using Python

• Experience working with container technologies is required (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc) is required; Kubernetes is preferred 

• Working knowledge of Terraform (IaC) is required

• Experience with common data engineering tooling such as Kafka, RDBMS tools, SQS, Lambda, etc (Spark is a plus) 

• required

• Cloud experience is required, AWS is a plus

• Experience with time series databases tools (Timescale, Influx, Timestream, etc) is a plus

• Foundational understanding of subnets, firewalls (security groups, ACL’s, etc) and other system architecture concepts 

• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn

• The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment

• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and work towards solutions

• Strong creative problem solving skills

• Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally

• Brings a customer-first mindset to engineering, and integrates customer impact into everyday decision making 

• Excellent attention to detail

• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success

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.
 

About Rapid7

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 11,000+ 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. 

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