We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and scale our engineering teams within the Rapid7 InsightIDR product area. The ideal candidate is a technical leader who can balance team leadership, execution, and strategic planning. You’ll work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other departments to ensure delivery of high-impact, scalable solutions aligned with our company goals.

About the Team
Event Source Integrations

• This team is responsible for building the integrations with third party vendors to allow ingestion of their security event data into the Rapid7 InsightIDR product, and normalisation of that data to a standard that will allow capabilities such as reporting, detections, searching on that data. These integrations are typically Cloud based and can be via Restful API, Amazon S3 or bespoke methods

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager, your primary responsibility will be to Lead multiple engineering teams in the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software products.
 

Specifically, your focus will be to: 

• Coach and mentor engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Partner with product and design teams to define technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

• Oversee technical execution, including architecture decisions, code quality, and infrastructure scaling.

• Manage team capacity, hiring plans, and performance reviews.

• Drive engineering excellence by establishing best practices in development processes, testing, and deployment.

• Support career development for engineers through regular feedback, growth planning, and learning opportunities.

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from technical teams to executives.

The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in an engineering management or leadership role.

• Proven experience managing multiple teams to deliver complex products in partnership with product managers

• A track record for mentoring and growing software engineers at all levels 

• Experience with Agile or Scrum development methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills with experience communicating to Exec levels

• A demonstrable passion for all things software engineering, including knowledge of designing and implementing reliable architectures in cloud environments 

• Ideally experience managing managers

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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