Platform Software Engineering Manager

As the Platform team manager, you will be responsible for developing our products’ platform capabilities and features, as well as designing cloud workloads such as microservices and other state-of-the-art software development tools and environments.

About the Team

As part of the Platform team, we are responsible for the core of the InsightTI practice, from improving the development experience to maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure, services, and core components.

The Platform team is built solely by senior developers. It has a direct impact on the customers, from the core UI to the loading times and availability of our platform and services and the time to process and generate intelligence at the end.

About the Role

In this role, you will -

• Deal with software challenges, including high performance, scalability, robustness, and resilience.

• Lead the planning and execution of platform and intelligence features.

• Steer, grow, mentor and lead the engineering team and our people’s talent, including some of the best developers in the organization.

• Responsible for developing technical strategy, and for developing and maintaining a technical roadmap that will continue to innovate from a technical standpoint.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure a high degree of alignment, ruthless prioritization, and timely releases of products and services in support of critical company initiatives.

• Work as an effective leader across the organization, and collaborate with other leaders to translate the business priorities of the company into a technical agenda.

• Ensure scalable development, testing, and deployment process to maintain and improve product reliability, scalability, and performance

• You will participate in architectural discussions and decisions directly impacting our product's future.

• You will take part in the development and operation of a large multi-tenant SaaS platform running in the cloud on top of Kubernetes.

• You will be a part of a diverse and dynamic international, multicultural organization.

The skills you’ll bring should include the following -

• Prior experience with leading development teams and processes

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience

• High proficiency in the following programming languages and frameworks: NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, and Angular/React

• Experience working with the following cloud environments: AWS and GCP

• In-depth, hands-on experience with Kubernetes

• Prior experience designing and developing DevOps processes & Infrastructure

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​
Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We’re on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people.

With over 10,000 customers across 140+ countries, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity that has earned numerous industry accolades and recognition for our technology and culture.